𝕃𝕒𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕟_𝕄𝕒𝕩𝕨𝕖𝕝𝕝 𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕘

Final Video

Reflection

Reflecting back for this assignment, I found it extremely fun and satisfying this semester, as I felt more independent and creative free for myself choosing any audio with two characters acting from any based scenario. As I got the chance to experiment more with the emotional response of the characters to make them feel more real in this specific scene finding it very enlightening. I truly believe I’ve improved much better in my art skills and techniques this semester with the knowledge refreshed in my mind from previous years and gaining a lot of feedback from both Sarah and Mike to guide me on what I needed to accomplish. My drawbacks for this project is not going in the direction of making the characters detailed as actual fictional characters with other details such as hair, clothes and eyes as I only went for the shapes instead. I also found it difficult in the clean up stage trying to make it more smoother and clean from the lines for the final video and adding more anticipation to Character B as I felt should’ve been more. Overall, I enjoyed this assignment and my animation scene for my portfolio for the future. 

Portfolio of Videos

 

 

 

For our final module class before the Christmas holidays, we presented our most recent progress after our last feedback previous week. I made a presentation with my most recent progress after adjusting the last improvements and what is my plan for this week and the next before posting my submissions on the 19th December. Here was my latest update where I had made my last improvements with the leading scene walk, lip syncing and more movements with character B. Using the inspirations I’ve recorded I was able to greatly understand and gained knowledge of what I was missing for that scene to acknowledge it more in any common sense. 

Afterwards I got only a few notes from my lecturer Sarah as my animation was coming along much better for this week, as I only needed to change the staging a bit for Character B’s position to move closer to the centre of the scene closer to Character A. Another was to watch the timing when adding in between frames and the actions of both characters and finally the composition with the references I have recorded for one or two of the shots I have recorded for inspiration. My goal is to gain the feedback I received from my module class and send off my last update the following week before submissions if I needed anymore support and guidance just before the Friday. I also did a presentation for week 12 to show what’ve I’ve done, referenced and the pipeline. 

Here is most recent version for the post production phase once for a few in-between frames and clean ups down below. Once I showed Sarah this for any final feedback once we were off for the Christmas break for my most recent improved scene. She gave me feedback on Discord saying “in terms of the animation the steps once she picks up the plate and before she smashes it feel really fast and the second character feels a little static at the end but as time is limited don’t worry too much about the steps but I would focus pre on getting more reaction from the second character”. Taking in her feedback I became confident in my skills and techniques for me to make these improvements in my limited time then add in few minor movements to them, finally making it to the clean up stage to create the characters more see through and better looking when I reached to my final video stage. 

After gaining new feedback over the course of the week, I needed more improvements once I got my new shot included as Character B had to have more movement with the arms, expressions and a mouth compared to A. I also to fix the intro/leading scene when Character A walks into view for their legs looked off as it looks like they’re moving too fast or running in that certain shot. I later recorded myself to help with the fast walking shot with Character A and B’s movement to give it a more of a an response after I captured it so I knew the time and spacing perfectly using real life reference even by myself to capture the motion of the small walk of anger. 

For minor fixes, the scene required the mouth lip syncing to Character A to match with the time they’re mouth would stop speaking which was in case to close it and more roughs and movements to their head. Character B as the same as they’re moving to much little when rotating and to make the animation more smoother after doing the roughs and smoother Arcs. Here is this weeks progress with the references I recorded beforehand. 

I was able to record myself better this time for a wide shot and was able to edit both shots together using the symmetry and rule of thirds lines to give both versions space to edit with my mobile phone at a better stance to view myself but a couple of seconds had been off once added and edited together but all was good for what I had got in the end.

After editing the audio and extending the intro by adding an interior design by adding a cabinet, I moved onto the second shot scene where Character A is centred on the over the shoulder shot from Character B once the plate smashes and Character A giggles and laughs and brings us to the first shot angle back till the end. I mainly focused on the timing and spacing of frames matching with the wavelength of the audio and experimenting with the new shot in one file and keeping the old version together following a strict timeline as I did like both versions of the animation however the new shot grew more impact with Character A then the first animation sequence.

Here is version 1 and version 2 of the animation videos to see the difference.

It was interesting enough once I had spare time to work on more frames to make it more rough but felt it drew back my time with adding the intro and the new shot in but nevertheless and I favour both versions of the animations all together and awaited more feedback before the week of making our presentations before we’re off for the Christmas break as I’m confident to make it to the end of this module. Recording myself had a few problems in terms of cinematography for the shots as I always tried to find the proper angle for the shot with my legs and over the shoulder shot by myself as my family was to busy.  But I was able to overcome this difficulty once I finally got all the angles using my phone at the correct position and shooting both characters one side/angle beside the other. After retaking shots it became stress free as I resumed my work.