LAUAN404 - Study Task 10 - Key Frames, Extremes and In-Betweens / Final Animation

For this study task we were instructed to improve upon our animatic and create a full fleshed out animation. Throughout this process I have learnt quite a bit about TV paint, soundscaping and animation in general. I feel that I have genuinely improved in my animation skills, more specifically with timing, pose to pose and presenting my work in front of peers. I hope to use these skills in the future and improve upon my mistakes.

Final Animation

What went well:

• I have heavily developed my animation skills in general.
• Good timing and consistent style and tone.
• Well animated scenes.
• Incorporated many principles of animation

What to Improve upon:

•  Sound effects and Soundscape.
• Pacing of the animation.
• Work on making smoother animation.
• Make simpler character designs.

Overall, I am very proud of this piece of animation, as it's taken a lot of time and effort to make. I hope to use this as a gleaming example of how to proceed in my journey of animation to come.

LAUAN404 - Weekly Blog - Fight animation

Over the past few days I have been developing the final scene I need to complete for my animation, the brief clash between my protagonist and antagonist. In order to complete this scene, I went through several different phases to get the timing and poses right.

Simple Sketch

Detailed Sketch

Line Art

Final Animation With Colour And Background

I feel that documenting this scene is very important because to me it's the most ambitious shot of animation I've done yet, and I wanted to display how I worked through it.

I believe that the actual character drawings could use a bit more time and detail, however due to time constraints I've restricted frames and details in order to fit it into my final animation. Despite that however, I feel that I've done a good job.

LAUAN404 - Pitch Bible 2

In the past week I have worked on a second pitch bible with more content and improvements from the first. The biggest improvement I've made is the format: Instead of showing it in a google doc, I have used power point presentation. I feel that this was more effective in displaying my work and explaining it cohesively. I have also realised that I found it easier to communicate this time as I wrote down notes and simplified what I had worked on.

New Title Page

I feel that this new title page is a much bigger improvement from the last, as it fits the style a lot more.

Pitch Bible 2

Improvements that could be made:

• More visual content.
• More text to describe my work.

LAUAN404 - First Animation Attempt

In the last week I have been working on my first draft for my complete animation. While missing some scenes, I feel that I have done when with editing the animation with sound effects, transitions and camera panning.

I have received feedback as to how to improve my animation so far:

• Clean up the line art.
• Keep the antagonist in the shot for a longer period of time.
• More dramatic sound effects.
• First slime squishes too early.

I will address all these criticisms in my second and potentially final draft.

LAUAN404 - TV Paint

Here I will blog my experiences with TV Paint.

I have really enjoyed using this software, and I have grown very fond of it lately when using it to complete my animation. While I'm still getting accustomed to the different tools and shortcuts found in the software, I feel that I have utilised the programme well enough.

I have used the software to experiment, as can be seen with this bouncing ball gif.

I have practised like this in order to get more used to TV paint.

LAUAN404 - More Background Artworks

For my animation I have been working on more backgrounds that will feature in the 40 second animated short. These can be seen below:













Evaluation of Backgrounds:

I feel that all the backgrounds remain very consistent in theme, colour palette and tone. However, I do feel that I could go into more detail if I had more time to complete my animation. Either way, I feel that these backgrounds work very well for my animation.

LAUAN404 - Changes from Storyboard

I have made more changes to my animation that will differ from the storyboard and animatic I have created. 

I have made changes to this scene where the Slime King is revealed in the animation. Instead of having him appear from a distance, I have decided to zoom in on a close up of the character. 

Animatic / Storyboard Panel

Changes In the animation (Single Image)

I have made this change because I feel it's more cinematic and imposing to have my antagonist up close when he's properly introduced into the story.

Another change I've made is the first few panels of the story board. Instead of just standing still, my protagonist will hold up a small slime creature and then crush it to show her attitude toward slimes. 

Animatic / Storyboard Panel

Animation (Single Image)

Once again, I've made these changes because I believe that it would make the animation more interesting to look at instead of having a stationary shot of the character standing around doing nothing.