Animation

This week, I didn't get as much finished as last week. I completed a shot, and started another two complicated shots. One of them gave me a lot of trouble when I was trying to figure out the perception, so I think I will have a think about it over the weekend and try to tackle it again next week.

Animating

This week I chose to do some more simple shots. In total I completed two, which I am very pleased with; far more progress than last week as they were quite long shots. The screen shots are shown below;

First shot finished

This week I learned how to use TV Paint to animate a shot. I also completed the first shot of the film, which only took me a day because it was very simple. I then completed a second shot, however it took me four days to animate and colour; which is far too long for if I want to get this film finished by the deadline, so I need to speed up. Having said that, it was my first time using TV Paint so hopefully I will get quicker at animating as I get more used to the program.

Below is a screen shot of each shot that I animated this week;

Beginning Animation

Back at University now, and after a quick post-Christmas holiday review with my tutor, I am ready to start animating.

I am going to animate the shots where there is no dialogue first, simply because I wasn't able to book a session in the sound studio on the dates I wanted; the earliest it was available was the 3rd February, which I have now booked a session on, but until then I cannot animate my characters accordingly to their speech. I think animating this way will prevent me from wasting time.