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.

Change in timing

So this scene was one of my favourites to animate, I loved trying to reflect her personality and play around with different parts of the movement, such as hair, her T-shirt, facials movements and the arms.

Once I re-imported the scene back into TVPAINT I realised something was slightly off, I wasn’t keen on how fast the animation was. I decided to make two exports, one at 24frames per a second and one at 15. I asked a few people what they preferred and everyone agreed that the slowed down version was more realistic.

Script and Scene Directions

Once I felt like I had conducted enough research and I had made sure that Hannah had her designs finished with mine I was finally able to start work on the planning of our entire animation. I knew how I wanted to visualise each scene so I attempt to plan out the script and camera angles at the same time.

Overall I’m rather impressed with what I’ve been able to come up with, It wasn’t easy planning it on my own but I was aware it needed to get done and as director I took charge. Once I had finished with the script I forwarded it to Hannah to check she was happy with everything and as far as feedback went nothing was needed to be changed.

 

Numinous
scene 1
wind blows through grass, birds tweeting, characters feet walk through grass
then switch to him happily walking, front view torso upwards.
walks into screen, background beautiful.
scene 2
heres the creepy noises, pans out into the trees, cute creatures in the tree, backrgound (with character in) goes blurry.. still looking to the left with a troubled look he goes to continue walking to the right.
scene 3
pan out birds eye view. beautiful music plays. Look at scenary from the world.
Look at his house. how the moat works etc.
scene 4
walks up the steps to his house, viewpoint from the door slightly looking down at him. He goes to unlock the door when the noise comes back. His face completely changes.
Second angle from slightly below him as he turns around with fear.
scene switches to behind him as he looks around frantically (tracks eyes from left to right fast movement). zooms in on a door that has appeared.
scene 5
He turns back around clearly frightened and opens the door speadily before going in. (angle from behind him and slightly to the left so you can see his side and hands opening the door)
(door slams noise black screen)
scene 6
lying awake in bed, birds eye perspective, close up on one of his eyes. Angle changes from side angle, he sits up in bed and takes hat of. pulls out a key. glistens as the moon hits it from the window.
scene 7
close up on the side of the house, the moat gets louder as it turns. Squirrel creatures jump in the foreground as he makes his way to the door in the background. The noise starts up again. Hand held out infront of him as he looks at the key. He looks up focus on the face.
scene 8
Black, door opens, camera angle from the other side of the door, door makes a creaky noise. character looks in. Now from back of the character. Noise gets louder as his body is forced through the door. Zoom in on his eyes and face as he falls back first. Camera angle from the side of the whole as the character falls down past the screen. His vision is blurry as a lady makes his way over to him.
scene 9
Screen is bluey black and foggy. infront of him is a lady. she looks up and smiles eerily. His eyes widen and the screen goes black.
scene 10
Camera angle is from slightly below him, he stands up coughing. and looks around. Now from his perspective, we see a path infront of us, small houses are destroyed and giant fungi grow. He crouches down to look. small dead people scatter the ground. He looks into one of the windows where he sees a petrified looking person. His eyes widen. He stands up and backs off slowly. He continues forward. Camera angle behind him. Scenes of washing lines blowing in the wind and childrens toys on the floor. dead twins balanced on a tree. He walks into shot before continuing on.
scene 11
He peers round a huge fungus as he hears a boy sobbing. A boy on a bench is giggling and and crying. Character looks around. starting to sweat backs away. He turns around to come face to face with something. That opens up to reveal tiny babies with teeth clawing towards him. His face drops. Camera angle looks down on him as he backs up frightened. Sunflower light starts to flicker as the screen goes black.
scene 12
Damming noise plays. His light begins to flicker back on. Infront of him are people in a circle in a prayer position. He walks around them. camera angle from behind him. as he moves around in the middle is a giant baby made out of many heads. He turns around and jolts back. He bends closer and looks at the tree infront of him that has a face. He hears a moaning noise as he turns to see the mutation of a man on the floor. Camera angle from the side. The boy bends down hands on his face.
scene 13
Screen is black .The same creepy noise starts. A close up on the boy characters eyes as his fingers pull at them. The camera moves to the side to reveal a door behind him.

The End.