03/12/2018 – 07/12/2018 Week 11

Research sources List:
Google: Reference Images for Japanese temples to use in background.
Development
This week I have been primarily focusing on getting the scenes that I have chosen to be fully rendered coloured and shaded in Paint Tool Sai. I did consider not adding shading as I knew this would be rather time consuming and this week I have been rather concerned about getting everything finished. However I made the decision to add shading based on the brief stating that these 10 seconds are to demonstrate how we would envision the animated fable as a whole to look. So with this in mind I decided to add shading manually to each frame. My main focus this week has been tightening up my animation and colouring the scenes as well as creating a new background concept for scene 2 with the traditional Japanese styled temple in the background which I thought would add a little bit more charm and interest to the scene.
Strengths
This week my strengths have been focused on getting the animation for the rendering ready and coloured so that next week I can go into After Effects with all my PNG files of the layers of backgrounds and the PNG sequences of coloured animations so I can start layering and editing them altogether. This week has definitely been one that is very much a part of being a 2D animator, it’s not as thrilling as animating something and seeing it come to life but you still get excited when you see the colour version coming together.
Areas for Development
Next week and over christmas will be fully dedicated to finishing up on the colouring and checking my keyframes are working time wise and form wise before going into After Effects to start creating the final version of my animation.