Animation To Sound

I have created the dope sheets with the template given to us in our logic pro sessions. I have tried my best to pin point what happens and when prefectly in these sheets but some frames are definitley off by a few because at some points in my soundtrack I just could hear over any over instruments or vocals and just had to try and get a feel for the music.

We was also shown how to map out a soundtrack in soundtrack pro which I really didnt take too although once you import it into the program I guess it literally has become a form a of visual music. Reminds of the visualization screen savers for old windows media player.

As suggested in our Crit I have synced the caterpillars with the claps on the sound track.

My tutor and other classmates also agreed there is something not quite with the caterpillars in animation and have suggested perhaps toggling with the size and timing of them. I will definitely experiment with both of these ideas to see if it improves my animation. I definitely want to do something with the timing of the animation because the caterpillars were initially just intended to fill the background space.

Completed the recurring motion paths for the butterfly. Everything seems to be working okay but still unsure of the caterpillars I don't know what to do with them.

I have made the caterpillars move vertically across the screen incase I cannot work out a way to fix the previous idea. I have chosen to make them move vertically because I think it gives the animation an off screen presence similar to Len Lye's colour box.

I have decided to scrap the idea of the caterpillars circling page for now as it proving to be very tedious. The digital cutout method I have adopted isnt efficient for moving lots and lots of little caterpillar pieces around and rotating them. I may not scrap this idea for good though , I will see if my tutor can give me advice on monday.

I have also made the flies move with the piano riff of the song and I am yet to make the butterfly flutter across the screen to represent the vocals of the song. I also need to add the never ending circling caterpillar background.

Although I like the more abstract animations I found it hard myself to think about creating one and how to plan it out. This is why I decided to draw everyday objects from my environment to get the ball rolling and I eventually took on a more character based animation.

Same as previous post except I have learned that butterfly wings move different to flies when they flap. It's more of a regular in and out vertical flap which I will use for animating my butterfly.

I have looked up videos to watch how flys move their bodies and wings when they fly and they have a sideways outward wing motion when they fly. I will maeke my flys move like this in my animation to make them alittle bit more believable.

I feel this looks much better than the previous the image isnt so flatten looking so I will prepare an animatic with this storyboard and see if it works.

Although I liked the blue background I didn't really feel the colours went completely well together. I was playing around with colours and I read some where on the internet that a limited colour palette can be very effective so I tried that by using a lighter shade of the caterpillar for a background and now I feel that colours look a whole lot better. They go together and still make the different objects noticeable.

I have changed the colour of the spiky caterpillar and the background because it was too hard to tell the different objects apart with the bold rainbow colours. I was going to make the caterpillar greyscale to make the bugs and Audrey pop out against it but a friend suggested to use a colour scale instead. 

Seeing my storyboard frames move has also shown me that I need to change some of the colours as it takes a few seconds to realise what is going on. Other than that I am very happy with this result.

The result of this animatic has also made me realise that the colours I have chosen (particularly the caterpillars) simply do not work , they take all the attention away from the main parts of the animation and it isn't very friendly on the eye either. I will be looking at different colour schemes for the caterpillars.