jordan's 3rd year animation blog

Here are the final composited shots of this new scene.

Here is the final composited shot for shot 17, combining the animation with the background, add the light from the flashlight and some colour correction.

After I lined and coloured the animation, I tweened the frames based on the perspective of the background and added stop motion keyframes in Toonboom to match the framerate of the drawings.

Here is the final poster design for my film. I decided to redo the poster due to not liking the method I was previously using and I was rendering it at the wrong resolution. Despite the retry I really like the final output and I’m very satisified with how it looks.

Here is a timelapse of me rendering a background for my film. This is to show the process of how I visualize a background from sketch to a fully rendered piece.

Here are some recently produced backgrounds for my film. I feel i put a lot more detail in the cave in comparison to any exterior shots, I wanted to fully capture the setting and the mood of the cave so I put more effort into them. I had some advice from Jamie with the lighting from the first establishing shot of the cave. The backgrounds don’t neccessarily have a consistent colouring and shading but they are later fixed up with colour correction in After Effects.

Here is a work in progress for my film poster, I wanted to go with a more lineless style and experiment more with the visuals, especially with tone and colour.

After presenting my film and progress to the class and teachers, I was advised to focus less on the inbetweens and more on the keyframes and backgrounds, the progress of my film is more behind than I was expecting, so I’m planning to prioritize shots more than others to draw inbetweens, and leave the less important shots to just keyframes.

So I went back into the After Effects projects and adjusted the colour and contrast. I enjoy the look of it so far but I feel I may adjust it again.

Did some research on the Mercury Filmworks animation studio, based in Ottawa Canada who worked on the Mickey Mouse Shorts, Hilda and The Lion Guard.

After looking at some short films, I have decided to redo my backgrounds in a different style, going for a more blocked out, lineless, textured look. I definitely prefer this to the other backgrounds as they feel too washed out, desaturated and bland. 

Here is a test render of shot 2 with the character animation, background and snow effect composited in After Effects.

Incomplete animation from shot 3.

Jack London ‘To Build a Fire’, an animation film I found so I can study the colouring and the backgrounds.

This is an incomplete animation for shot 4 of my film. It is to show how the animation is layered with different parts of the character.