This week for our task in class, we learnt how to clean up line art for animation and to colour it in! This is what mine looks like:
After this, we got feedback on our animatics as a team. This was our whole animatic put together:
This was my part:
Aodhan went into more detail about what wasn’t really working with each of our animatics; for mine, it was a little confusing for the story so we decided to change up my part a bit. Instead of the little girl touching the butterfly at the end and glitching in to the guy, I made it so at the end the guy would glitch into the world. Then whenever the girl touches the butterfly, her and the butterfly glitch and the void comes out of the butterfly; the guy tries to run away and falls over which then leads into Stef’s animation! This was the animatic updated:
In week 10, I spent more time on animating little parts and adding the coloured backgrounds in! I also spent time making a mini animation for the flying butterfly and walk cycle so I could bring it into after effects at the end!
Week 11 in class we got feedback on our animatics! I had already had some of mine done after adding in the coloured backgrounds so this week, I mainly spent it redoing the line art and colouring.
In class, I asked Aodhan a bunch of questions and forgot half of them after going through everything – so he wrote them down for me!
I worked on them this week using references to help me as I found it a little difficult, especially for body turning. The main references I used were videos of myself doing the actions that I wanted my character to do – I would just film myself and then go frame by frame to see what movement I done which really helped! For the walk cycle, Aodhan had showed me Richard Williams’ walk cycle and a pdf of his book which was very helpful. I used this guide to help me with my walk cycle. I realised I would need it to slow down at the end but I found this difficult to do:
After this, I sketched and coloured the main character guy which would do a cameo at the end of my animation! Rebecca had already sketched him so we all decided to draw him the same but in our own style! This is how mine turned out:
After this I animated him at the end turning his head to look towards the void. I needed a little bit of help with the animation as I thought it was hard to do but I found a really really helpful YouTube video!
This is what his scene looks like finished: