Animation Process And Effects: – Lima Ingrid’s Animation Blog

Continuing with the process of making the final animation with the movements, I had to use some references that helped me a little to understand the movements that would be used in the scenes. In animation, it was one of the most difficult parts to work on, due to having more than one character to animate and having different rigging preparations in the same scene. In the short film, when separating characters and scenes, my part would be preparing the first scene, the intro of the short film.

Bottle Picking Scene:

Following some tutorials to help me with this part, I also used a recording to observe a movement of picking up the bottle and drinking the drink.

Reference:

Character Expressions:

Continuing a little with the scenes, I also tried to work on the expressions of the character (drunk man) where there were more facial expressions in the scenes, in this part I know the shape keys commands to help me control the movements, so in the first expression tests they are very rough where I had to change to make it more symmetrical with the character’s face. As our animation doesn’t have much communication and works more with facial expressions and body language, I tried to research different ways to make this part more fluid in the animation.

First Test:

Final:

Reference help for the expressions I would use in the animation.

These images were all taken from Google, just to have a basis for the expressions I could use in the animation with the drunk character.

Effects:

For my scenes I tried to put smoke effects when the bounty hunter enters the bar, star effects when the galaxy scene is shown and in the scenes where the bounty hunter’s hood appears and disappears. Since in the fight scenes we don’t have the bounty hunter wearing the hood I had to make the hood disappear in these scenes.

For the bounty hunter’s hood, I tried to see several ways to make the hood appear and disappear in scenes without being in front of the cameras, so that the scenes of him wearing the hood and in another without it would be more fluid. To do this, in one of the scenes I made an animation in the character simulating that he would take off the hood and in the other I tried to disappear with the hood. It was a quick process to do and much easier following the tutorials.

After some preparations in the animation and having already rendered everything, fixing the errors, Zoe also did the part of adding the sound to our animation, more comical sounds with an old western style and its classics!

And I was responsible for editing the end of the animation, in this process I tried to adjust the tones that were uneven and different due to the way each one managed to render and adding some details to the scenes such as more contrast, title, smoke effects and I also adjusted the lighting to be as similar as possible to the scenes for this I used Adobe After Effect.

Effects I used:

MP4 from Youtube:

Problems & Solutions:

In the middle of this whole process of preparing the animation I had several problems that I had to have some help. While preparing the process of rendering my file I had a problem with my personal computer that stopped working, making me lose much more time than I thought. To help me finish and render everything quickly I used the computer at the university where I did the entire final process and so I ended up finding errors after rendering. One of the problems I had was with the lighting because our set had many layers and a lot of things were causing interference and causing problems with the lighting and the scenes.

I tried to use techniques, I talked to my group, I did research but nothing worked in the process so I asked Mike for help where he gave me an idea to improve the lighting, thus solving the problem and even improving the lighting of the scenes.