Rough Animation Scenes

Here are my rough keyframes and a few in betweens for some of the more dynamic movements in my animation, as I said before I’m still not completely sure which part I want to fully colour and render but I thought if I at least animated most of these parts it can highlight my skill regardless which one I choose in the end. I’m really pleased with both these scenes, I love the connection between the spirits and my young girl character, I think it reflects the nature of my fable and her relationship with the creatures perfectly.

With the yawn scene, again I’m rather pleased with how this has turned out, I wanted to focus on the change in her facial expression and her hair while she’s performing the action to give it as much realism as possible. Next step is to outline both of them ready to be used in my final animatic.

Inspiration Images

I managed to find the facebook post that had inspired me originally with the car scene, some of these images really reflect the beauty of nature taking over man made objects and forms. I’d love to be able to create some concept art inspired by these photos next term. I think the plane one perspective and colour wise would make a great piece.

Animatic Tests

So this week I plan on finishing my animatic and getting it to a point which is ready to be submitted, I’ve started to further develop certain scenes roughly just to try and understand some of the movement, but I’m aware that I don’t have to fully animate the whole thing. I’m going to continue to rough sketch my animatic until its ready to be outlined. There are still parts that need to be changed, for example the beginning scene I thought I’d switch up the perspective but I’ve decided I prefer it with the girl up close, as well as the yawn scene which I need to relook at and redraw as I’m not entirely happy with it.

Elements I do enjoy is the overall feel and camera angles, I also like that I’ve taken into consideration the t-shirt moving with the body when she stretches upwards which is effective.

Extra Background Concepts

So this scene was inspired by this photo that I actually came across on facebook of posts of abandoned areas and places around the world, I felt that this image resembles calmness, however, a calmness which is due to the panic that was possibly happening in the past having subsided.

In a lot of apocalyptic scenarios, a very typical scene is cars being stuck in gridlock and people panicking, although this may have not been what was happening in the photo below at some point in time, it is what I took creatively from the image.

Another childlike response that I have seen in films and sadly the real world in 3rd world countries, children have fun or perhaps even make fun with their surroundings when they have nothing else. I wanted to capture this scene to show how my young character is living in this world which would have once been racked with fear and panic but is now embracing it as it is.

As my animation is set in the future I wanted to make sure my cars were modernized as well as when it came to the number plates to create my own language. Once the car were finished in Paint Tool Sai I then did the same as I did with the buildings and put them into Paintstorm where I added the foliage and dirt effect to age them.

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