Animation Blog

To organise my work better for next year, I have create a new blog to start fresh. I may still post on this blog every so often since I mostly want to focus on my three minute film research on this new blog. There’s nothing on it yet, but hopefully soon enough it will be filled with work and research.

Here is the final edit to my 2 minute film (which is actually 2 minutes 29) I feel like it’s a definite improvement from my film I made last year, in the form animation and art style, but i still need to improve on my sound effects since it can be quite a tedious process to find good sounds. There are some parts where the animation is a bit rough, but I will hopefully learn how improve on these mistakes. I will practising over the summer so i can hopefully make my next year film as smooth as possible with its animation.

Before I finish my film, I decided to update my script a small bit because I feel like I needed to change some things in some of my shots. I mostly change the ending, from the castle turning out to be made out of cardboard, to just collapsing after being concord. I did this change because i felt like the idea of castle being made out of cardboard didn't suit the atmosphere of my film. 

Whilst watching some of Rooster Teeth animated adventures, I learn that any basic animation can look good if you add a little bit of  anticipation at the biggining and/or the end of ay character movement. Its a very effective way of animating because no matter how suddenly a character moves, adding that tiny bit of anticipation makes the whole thing interesting to look at. This is something I have been trying to add to my own animated film, because my characters have alot sudden movements in the film that need to look more interesting, and visualy pleasing.

These are some beautiful character sheets for the show Wander over Yonder. The sheets give such fluidity to the characters that it is no wander why the animation in the actual show is so beautiful and of course fluid. Seeing these character sheet help me get a btter idea of how I should make my characters for my films move to get the smoothdest anim,ation possible. When i create my next film after this current one, I will make more character sheets for my characters to help me plan out my film better.

This is the first time i’ve ever had to animate characters running, so I hope it works well.

here is the walk cycle made for my two minute film, after last year film being mostly walk cycles, i didnt think I would make another film based mostly around walk cycles, but at least im getting a better hang of doing them (I hope)

over the past year and I hald that I have been animating, I’ve done alot of walk cycles. But know it’s time for me to learn how to do a run cycle. Although my film doesnt have much of my chracters running, they still do run in it, so I am looking at some tutorials to help do this right.

since the castle falling over in my animatic look quite bad, I may need to change it that colapses on itself instead of it falling over. So I decided to look at Super Mario World to see how the castles were animated in the games.

After some annoying editing, i finally got my animatic done, the sound effects are a little cheesy, so I may need to find some new ones for my final edit of the film. But I can finally start animating my film.

since my storyboards are done, all I need to do is focus on the animatic, so I will soon be working on the animating the film.

One of  Those Knights (Storyboard Part 3)

Here are some more storyboards for my 2 minute film

Her are the first few pages for my 2 minute film storyboard, One of those Knights.

To help me with my story boarding, I found this page to help do story-boarding the right day. Even though I have done story-boarding before, it always helps to reminded certain things.

I’ve finally completed the script breakdown for my 2 minute film. I will be moving on to making the story board now,so yay for me.

since I have completed my script, the next step before I start animating is doing a script breakdown, but alongside doing my script break down ive done some sketches to help me visualize how my film should be filmed, to get the best possible outcome or my film.