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.
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