I spent today smoothing out animation in the first three sections of my animation, I thought I would show the progress (apologies for the GIF quality, they won’t flash in the final animation):
Improvement in candle flickers:
Improvement in candle flickers, added six in-between frames during reading and turning the page:
Finally, added two more in-between frames for reading on the big book:
Really happy with the changes I’ve made here, and think I’m ready to start the hefty task of colouring my frames. I think if I were to continue to analyse all of my scenes any further, I might never be satisfied fully! I will edit up the new, smoother, frames to my completed MP4 and send it in for review once more before I start the colouring process. I’m sure there are probably many areas in which I could improve timing and pacing, but as of right now I’m not really too sure where these improvements could be made.
References used for the candle flicker can be found here, I wanted to be sure to choose something not too dramatic — this is a sealed, warm, cosy castle room for study and star gazing, and as such there’s no substantial wind coming in and the candle would be burning quite evenly. I also didn’t want anything to distract from Hyacinth, who should be the focal point in these scenes.
I will be putting animation work on the back burner over the weekend in order to finalise and proof read my essay, which is due on Monday night. After that, I will have just over a week to finish colouring up my frames — as previously said, I’m very positive about my progress, my improvement in animation and my time-management for this project. I’m looking forward to getting my colouring done, and seeing what it looks like finished up.
Edit: I also wanted to include the presentation put together for this class, in which we presented our project so far and what we were planning on working on: