Here is my finished rendered animation as a part of my animatic with sound design, a title screen and credits.

Research sources List:
No Sources.
Development
When I started to composit my first scene into After Effects I realised that there are some colouring issues, stupidly I didn’t consider that due to the skin colour being so light I may of not been able to notice that when I was colouring I was going over the lines. And as my backgrounds are predominantly dark, and much darker than the characters colour scheme, the areas I had gone over stood out like a sore thumb. In order to resolve this I reopened Paint Tool Sai and put in a dark background so that I could go over each frame and erase the mistakes. A tedious but necessary task. I’ve also redrawn a few of the scenes that were from the animatic as I needed to work on the form of my character and the inbetweens.
Strengths
Strengths this week have been mainly going over and checking parts of my animation and animatic that perhaps need some more fine tuning, as well as learning from the colour issue that when I continue colouring I will make sure to have a darker background on to make sure I stay within the lines.
Areas for Development
Over Christmas I plan on completely finishing and rendering my animation with backgrounds, After Effects, sound design, credits and a title.

After importing my scenes into after effects I realised that the colouring had leaked out of the lines, this mean’t that because my backgrounds were mainly dark it didn’t look clean at all. I re-opened them in Paint Tool Sai and went over each frame with a coloured background to make sure they were neatened up/

 

 

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.