#animation 103

I’m actually very proud of this piece. It’s not perfect by any means, but it’s fluid enough, displays emotion through movement and expression and flows rather well. I’m super chuffed with the first scene and the movement in it. I was going to lip sync it but honestly was happy with leaving it as is. Improvement would come with the last scene, more frames and less copy and pasting, create a better flow. Also maybe adding in some lip sync to further the animation visually. I bumped into trouble again regarding syncing up the audio and animation but it was solved through trial and error of how many frames could be used for each scene and movement and then exporting correctly.

When I changed it from a FireAlpca file into an MP4 file, it ran too quickly compared to the audio (I didn’t bother editing it together for this reason as I just needed to tweak the frame lengths slightly to make it fit.) The audio is 11 seconds long and this video only 9.

Going off of the storyboard and key-framing as I go rather than all at once. So things get done in sections rather than bit by bit to key frame all the way through.

Using audio from Fruits Basket (2001), episode 9. 

I used FireAlpaca this time around. And must say, the programme is very nice and mostly animator friendly, the issue being that you can’t time independent frames like in After Effects. Could do with some editing as each frame can be saved as an individual image but that can become very time consuming as I found out in my first wall climb attempt. So this piece is kinda sketchy but I prefer the style for something like this? Some inbetweens aren’t as smooth as I wanted them to be and I came to realise that more often than not I couldn’t add more for fluidity because then it would out-sync with the audio. More frames meant that the video would be ahead of the audio and throw everything off, so I had to sacrifice some things.

Dialogue Progress Slow but sure progression in my dialogue piece. I decided to add in some vague and horribly done lip syncing about halfway through. It sort of matches up but not greatly.

A basic idea for the dialogue piece to the New York audio (June of the 11 seconds club)

This looks more like a goofy over-exaggerated walk than a strut but I guess it stays true to what I was trying. I struggled most with proportioning in this. There’s a little squash and stretch in there but not much and more often than not I felt like the legs were contorted in a weird way. If I went back to this I’d like to try more stretch and see what I could do with the squash on the contact point without completely messing up the anatomy.