The Final Outcome

I ain't had time to upload any images of the work I did to change the guy in the scene but I rotoscoped myself doing the action and this is how it turned out in the end, after being put into the full video. Got some Great feed back yesterday from everybody which I didn't expect but shows that working hard works out though I do see some areas that I want change but that is from watching hundreds of times ha ha. Ill use this experience to improve my skills and put towards future projects.

Evaluation

I found producing work for some else not hard but difficult to in-vision what they wanted but was a good experience to how it would be to produce work under someone. This project allowed me refine digital animation skills, in drawing a animation from the start on computer instead of by hand on paper. Produce backgrounds for animations which I ain't done yet but I know I will definitely need for my final major project next year. I feel I've gained a lot from doing this because I know now that I can produce work at a faster speed than I could before.

Something extra

I got the bird to fly across the screen at different sizes to you it more than once and get to see the detail when it is closer up :D

Finished Animation

So this is the complete animation. I've thought to make it smaller and make it fly across the screen to see if it will work which I will post up soon.

Bird flying semi complete

I've coloured it all in and I am happy with the end result, Just need to edit the wings so the start point is all the same because it moves around too much

Bird Body Colour

I coloured in the body to get a idea of how it would look. I made it slimmer than the temp body of the line test because it was a bit too big

Bird references

Being my favourite type of bird for its colouring and how it looks, I thought id base the bird on a falcon.

2 wings

I added 2nd wing in at the right points which was simple enough.

Starting off Bird flight

I got the basic shape and added the wings over, i only put the 1 wing in just to get the main wing moving 1st, i was pleased with this and i would improve it by addingin the 2nd wing at the right points. This was my 1st animation drawn all digitally.

How Birds Fly

A good video reference on how birds fly :D

Test and Final Crater

This is the final which i sent to the l6 student, he didnt end up using this one because it didnt match his style of animation, i found it a challenge achieving this because i was unsure of how to get the roundness of the crater so you can see it. i used his storyboard drawing as a reference also.

This is just a test of achieving a round shape of the crater, the depth is lost and just looks a mess, I wasn't happy with this test but was just a see how it goes piece

Research 2

So i looked at craters for the 2nd background to get a idea of how that would look.

Wasteland Final

This is the piece I came up with and when I sent it to him he was pleased with it so that was one sorted :D, I quite liked this one because I tried various brushes in the Sketch Book Designer program to produce different textures.

L6 Referance

So this is what he wants his background to look like so i will sketch something out quickly and come up with something.

Final 1

So this is the final which I produced in the end, I sent it over to the l6 student but found this wasn't what he was looking for so I would have to re do it using the source material that he gave me, I kinda got confused on what he asked for because he said he wanted horrible looking scenery which is what I was slightly going for here.

Tests

This was my 3rd test which I did and was what I was considering to keep it as but i needed to add more greenery because I felt it lacked it and looked too bare, so I considered adding grass from the second to bulk it out, working with layers allowed me to do this easily.


2nd test I liked this one but i needed to have more detail in the background.


1st Test to sketched and didn't look like dead long grass, I did like the blurred affect at the back to show contrast in foreground and background.

I had to get used to working on my screen tablet drawing out the images to I did a few practices before I was able to know what would and wouldn't work for my work.

Research

I started off by viewing what the L6 student had done so far so I got a ruff idea of what he had done. I went onto looking at forest images and dead wasteland images because I was later on told that is what id be doing instead in contrast to the forest version

My Tasks

So I've been set to do backgrounds for certain shots in the animation and produce small animal movement animations. ill try to send tests and samples to get feed back on what to change and improve upon. ill be keeping in touch with my L6 student via Facebook and email.

style and effects for final

so I'm going for a very sketched look which I could do all using sketch book design which should look good when its animated, i have also experimented with a haze look on the image to cause a fantasy look to it. I think that would look good, showing it to my group we talked about it may need doing to the all of it to give consistence.

Animating 5

Edited the parts which needed it and this is the end product. I feel comfortable with this filming and the finished ink product should look good.

Technique's
For this piece I had to insure that I got the timing and spacing right, I gave a little anticipation at the beginning to cause the viewer to think what will he do. Exaggeration was key because fantasies usually are and I feel I got the right level of exaggeration in his actions