Week 9

For week nine’s class exercise we followed along in making a simple animatic in AfterEffects, as I didn’t have my laptop with me I had to wait until a machine was available to work on this exercise. I did get most of the exercise done before we had to move on however I didn’t save it correctly so I unfortunately don’t have something to show. However I did feel I learnt a lot from the exercise as I had never used AfterEffects and this provided a good introduction.

For my animatic I chose to stick with Procreate as I couldn’t use AE from home and procreate is what I’m most familiar with, hence the process would be a lot quicker. As most of my shots were very simple, I only needed one reference. Obviously as the final shot of Nic arriving at the drains is a direct reference to Akira, I looked to the original scene of the iconic drift for reference:

My first version of the animatic had a few issues in that it was much too long due to the timing being off in many places. This was because in procreate I set my frame rate to 1fps. This was easily rectified in InShot by simply splicing my animatic to remove the extra few seconds of unnecessary material.

I successfully managed to half the length of my animatic and make it a lot smoother. I also cut out the opening shot as it felt unnecessary (and I honestly loathe drawing buildings.)  Now I felt confident to begin animating as I had a clear reference to follow.