#unitba3a

This is our final animatic after getting some advice from Helen after our mock presentations on Thursday. She had said our presentation was good, but we needed to make sure that we only had our key information slides in and we each needed to introduce what we did for the project. We also needed to work on our pacing for the animatic so that it would be clear for the panel tomorrow.  Whilst Natasha did the animatic, and re-done our pacing and timing and fitted in our environments in, it all looked like it was coming together nicely - and you could start to see how we aimed our visuals to be. I’m glad we decided to go over the old animatic as it sets a certain tone, and it’s easier to visualise how we want the final film to look. Whilst she was doing this, I was re-doing our presentation slides, and then added on the sound from the old animatic. There was a little bit of shifting to do, but finding sounds and putting it together was really fun, and it was cool to see how much sound changes an animation! We found a few sounds that we could change the pitch of and so on to then reuse for other sections, but our main goal is probably to add on some dialogue which either one of us will do soon, but for now we have a general idea of what sounds we need and what will work with what.

Final animation! I think it worked out pretty well in the end after everything and all the experimentation I did over the last few months. I think the sound works really well too and I did enjoy the process. I am a little disappointed that I wasn't able to do much animation/expressions with the face though. 

I did a really rough beat sheet of how the character would react to being taken over by pixels. I wanted to just get the basis down of it. I’ve created separate assets to animate the mouth and eyes. I’m hoping it works, I intend to animate it like I did with the lip sync in the first year - so hopefully it will go well. 

Final background for my fables animation. I wanted something that was dark  and had the theme of pixilation. 

pixel fade in and out test that I did of my character. i’m really happy with this test, I'm learning a lot about AE at the moment. I think the I would like to have the character fade off screen, to then be returned back to normal in the real world. I don't think this would work too much in the beginning of the animation.

This is a simple spiral test that I did over the holidays. Looking at the venom video, I wanted to experiment with the way the pixels moved around. This video shows them move from the bottom upwards, but when they get top her face it kind of encloses on her in a spiral/circular motion. 

Danger Mouse final character design!

Final design for Mickey Mouse!