#pierat

My Rattling! Prize from this year's Plague RoR push :3 I got to help design him (his markings and most of his accoutrements) and he's the first in a new adopt line by dropdeaddrawing. His name is Reepicheep. He is going on my rat-dragon pirate, Bonny. Future adopts may have some of the same apparel but with red, not blue detail. The ear bell is standard, but not the clapper (which is a coin :)

This film has been a considerable learning experience and has resulted in something I am mostly proud of, and have come away feeling satisfied with the efforts that I put into it. Due to my planning of simpler character designs compared to my second year film, I was able to keep up a much more consistent pace of work and interest in this film, whilst also being able to focus more on the animation, rather than composition shots and backgrounds. This was great in strengthening my animation skills which is what I had hoped to accomplish with this film, since the rat designs were very simply shaped, allowing me to exaggerate emotion and expression to a greater degree, as well as the comedy aspect of the film giving me opportunities to discover how to give body language a comedic effect. Though I think there is a lot that could use improvement, such as my background designs and my overall pacing of the film's arcs, since the backgrounds are lackluster in features at times and can be repetitive, and the pacing is very fast and chaotic. However, these features were deliberately left behind in favour of the character animation, which was my original intention. I still think that I could have pushed the expression further, with greater squash and stretch or elastic Hanna-barbera esque exaggeration, but what resulted was something that remained true to my artistic style and touch. This experience will carry forward onto any future films I may create.

A hearty collection of Pie-rats and Pirate-Rats ::) oh and furbums.. some hurbies.. the lads

BOOM! It’s a Pie-Rats haha

It arrived!!!!!!!!

My Pie-Rats festival pack.

I've recently used a Miro board to keep track of which shots and scenes I have completed, and which ones are in progress or missing. I will expand it when I begin colouring too.

Scene 5 - 15 - Capn Zoom in