Animation Production - Week 12 - Final Film Progress and Easter

Below is animating I did over Easter. I also managed to finish my work experience project for the client and they have signed it off so I am fully on my final film now. I do think I wont be able to finish it for the deadline but I am okay with this as I have had the other project and i have gained a lot of experience thanks to that project.


Over the Easter I wanted to inbetween most if not all of the film. I went scene by scene trying to make the animation as smooth as possible and fixing any of the changes that Sam and Emily had given me as feedback.


I added more frames into the foot scene to make it flow better as I thought the toes jerked slightly before.
foot scene from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.

tentacle reaching and pulling down from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.



The tentacle I felt before didn't move like a real tentacle, so I went back to the reference footage I had gathered from the sea life centre and watched it over and over again until I knew how I wanted to animate it. I feel it looks loads better from before and is more realistic in the way it moves.

I also thought about how snakes move, my parents own 3 snakes and so I thought about how they strike and they usually make an 's' shape and coil up and then spring forward, which is something I also tried to create below as the tentacle reaches forward to grab her.  
beginning scene from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.


tentacle reaching from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.

I then wanted to make her being pulled down smooth, before I had drawn it, it didn't really work with the fact that she is in water and wouldn't look that jerky and flick from side to side. As her character design was that you wouldn't see all the detail of her at every moment, I played on this and morphing her slightly so shes is a curved shape times. I feel it looks a lot better than the previous one.
beginning scene animated from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.


I next went onto the end scenes and inbetweening it.
ending scene 2 from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.


Final Film all together - with sound

I added the some of the sound effects from before Easter when I recorded them but some of them are very quite and so I will have to fix them for the deadline.
I have not finished all of the animating, I did not do the memory section and her floating off into the bubble in the beginning.
week 12 - final film from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.



Feedback

The feedback I got this week was that I definitely was not done with the animation, which is a knock back as I really wanted to start outlining after I had animated the memories section, but I understand that I shouldn't start animating until the animation is better and I need to just push forward.

I realise that I really wont be finished for the deadline after today and that my new deadline is for the degree show and making sure I have a film I am proud of and not rushed.

Emily has said she will sit with me and go through my animation telling me everything I need to fix, which will really help me at this point.

Animation Production - Week 11 - Final Film

This week I tried to make the memory section flow better and get across a uncomfortable feeling across to the audience. I took the feedback I had been given a couple of weeks ago and thought about having a rush of bubbles coming towards he with the memories in them. The memories are personal to my mum's experience but death is something that a lot of people can relate too and although they are supposed to be army boots the fact they are being weighted down is something people with depression could feel similar about.
I also wanted to add a horror/ nightmare feel to it with the quick flashes of memories, but I don't know if this has worked or not.

I also added a lift to when she hit the floor so she bounced back up from the force of the hit and that she is in water and so be floaty.
added her lift off when she hit the floor

I am hoping to start to inbetween next week. I am off schedule but I hope to catch up a bit over the Easter period.


Week 10 final Film from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.

In the next week I plan to go into the sound bootha dn record some sound affects with Bethany and Raj and hopefully have some of them in the animation for after Easter.



feedback

the walk in the memory section needs to be heavier
memory section needs to be not on time with the voice over because it looks like they are connected and not in a good way , also needs to be slowed down

the open end - may want to add the bubble and tentacle in the credits section so it doesnt end to abrupt

I will take all of this feedback o for the Easter and hope to have a lot of the animation done for when I get back.



I also got feedback from the Evaluation draft I put in, I didn't get huge changes so they will be able to be fixed easily and then it's just a case of finishing.