Animation Complete

The roles and jobs people in the group had for this project where never completely set.


Me - Digital animator (animated all digital elements), created the animatic, Inbetweener cleanup and general animation fixer (after finishing the digital elements)

Lauren - Traditional animator, Primarily animating the adult, Inked alot of the backgrounds, Compositor using aftereffects and premiere pro.

Gemma - Traditional animator, Primarily animating the child, Water coloured most backgrounds.

Jordan - He quit before the production stage and wasn't around much before hand. He isn't in our group anymore but is in the titles. Which i don't think is fair.


The only permanent roles where me as digital animator and lauren as compositor. Everything else was quite dynamic, we worked well as a group.

Each frame of the animation had to be keyed, inbetweened, cleaned, inked (for objects and backgrounds), water coloured (for objects and backgrounds), scanned, alpha channeled in photoshop, composited in aftereffects, exported by scene and finally all put together in premiere pro.

It was very slow to work like this but it was a style choice we wanted to achieve. The digital elements in the animation was to give antagonistical presence.

Animation Complete

I havn't posted anything in the past month because I have been very busy making the film. It is now complete, here are a few screens from the work i did.

I animated the digital carriage in adobe flash. I also used flash to put together a few traditional elements along with the digital.

Painted backgrounds made by Lauren and Gemma.

Painted backgrounds and fire watercolour frames made by Lauren and Gemma. Composited together in flash by me.

These are the digital animation alpha channeled walk cycles, made in flash and exported as an MOV and composited in after effects into the scene by Lauren.

Hands and Details

A few details for the representation of the digital self, bird like claws and long fingernails. pixelated body like a shroud around the figure. Slouches behind a computer, moves slowly and doesn't communicate vocally.

Digital Self Concept

Colour/mood design, the windows will be alot darker as its at the stage where the train is going through a tunnel. The general colouration will be a mix of stark yellows from the train lighting and the green glow from the screen. the general colours are dark greens and maybe a few blues.

Character sheet, i will make another on how the digitization works and how the hands and face will look. this character sheet is about general space the character takes up and its stance, the character will be voiceless, expressionless and move slowly.

Things to do over easter.

Final designs:
Character (main)
Other Characters (shovels, negatives, dad)
Backgrounds (station, carriages)

Tests:
Character on B/Gs, Composited.
Stuff out the windows on carriages.
Characters animated.
Train.
Smoke.

Animatic:
Final,
Add first draft sounds, agree what sounds we want after that.

Ryan - change the animatic (new ending, shovel men shoveling in toys), design the backgrounds for the digital carriage and colour tone ect.

Negative people composited on station/shovel people.

Desgin the digital carriage with pixelated characters.

Gemma - Colour backgrounds, Design shovel men and farther.

Design Stop-motion stuff out the windows. (composited by ryan)

Lauren - Animating tests of main characters (boy and pres)

Draw out the backgrounds.

Animatic v3

http://www.vimeo.com/22670600

Animatic v3

A few changes have been made from the original storyboard.

http://www.vimeo.com/21823643

Storyboard sequenced and put into a video.

Story-Board

The storyboard was put together and talked about as a group over a day with Gemma, Lauren and myself. Originally it was drawn onto A7 size pieces of paper, then scanned. i then vectorised the cells in flash and added a bit of shadow to give better form and added the movement arrows in a different colour.

Put together by Lauren, Gemma and myself.

Scanned and descriptions added to each cell by Lauren.

Vectoriseation by myself.