Innovative - Week 3 - Animation 3

 For our animation we decided to take a scene from Hedgehog in the Fog and change it slightly. We chose the scene where he is alone in the fog and he is being scared by different animals. We though we would change the animals we would use so we weren't just copying the scene. Sandra wanted us to focus more on the fog and the atmosphere of the scene rather than having too much movement, which i feel as a group we accomplished.

I found this animation my least enjoyable to make, although i liked how it looks and the painting style we used shows the detail in the animals well, painting like this just isn't what i would chose to do myself.


https://vimeo.com/143995917

The link above is the first go of our animation without any sound.


This link is for the complete animation https://vimeo.com/143995918

I feel our animation turned out well and is what we wanted it to achieve. We changed the timings and took out frames to speed up certain areas of the animation, which adds to the scary atmosphere. We did struggle with the fog, which is what Sandra wanted us to focus on. It was hard to make it look real like Yuri's, and even though we used Google, no one really knew how to make it. I think how we created the fog looks good and you know it is fog, but i feel we need to research more about it because it could look better.

To make the animation we had to layer each bit, so the background was at the bottom, then the fog, then the mouse, and on the top was the fox bat and grass. This was hard to make sure everything stayed in the right place and so we had to stick parts down and make long strips of acetate to move certain parts.

The music also adds to the scene as it gets louder and jumps in when the fox scares the mouse and the bat has it's own music too. We used orchestral music similar to what Yuri used in his animations. If we were to do it again i would change some parts to make it more smooth but overall i feel we worked well as a group and our animation is good.

The pictures below are of the process.

 With the mouse Emily created side views for when the mouse turned and also detached the heads so that they could moved up and down, making the movement more real.

 The fox as created by Bethany with one layer of acetate sketched with marker pens for details, then a second layer of acetate with paint, which made the fox stand out.