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Scene 4 - Progress

[Line Art] - There were a few iterations of this version where I started with black line art but decided to try the purple outline to see how it would look.

[Final Outcome] - After I put together the background, I darkened the lines to match the scene and added shadows the same way I did for the 12th scene.

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Scene 4 Backgrounds

Getting the colour for the nightmare scene was difficult more me. I wanted there to be a significant difference between the two scene types in my animation. And after a few tries of trying to distinguish the tones in this scene between the character and background, I found a happy place after iteration and feedback.

I couldn't figure out how too adjust the tones well, and with feedback, I found out the tone of the rock should be darker and or the same colour as the trash. And the character should be the lightest tone to stand out. 

[Test 1]

[Test 2]

I also decided to change the tone of colours to something cooler. 

[Final Outcome]

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Scene 12 

[Lines]

[Colours]

[Shadows]

On TV Paint, adding overlays is only available in the professional version, so I tried an alternative way of adding shadows. I picked a colour and lowered the opacity of the layer for the shadows. But to get the right colour that looked like it was an overlay, I played around with the colour adjustment settings to find a tine that matched the scene well. 

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Scene 12 - Background Progress 

During the beginning stages of designing my background, I lost the kind of look I was going for. I asked for feedback from my course mate based on the photo below, and they reminded me of my style frames and my initial look. That really helped me get back on track and put me on the right direction.

[Thumbnailing Colours & Composition] 

[Outlining and refining]

[Experimenting with Shadow and Light] - I got feedback from my friends on this and they asked what the light source was. I then realised that it looks like it’s from a flashlight. So I added a more curvy and wavy line to appear as a trees shadow, or light coming through a tree. 

[Final outcome]

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Scene 11

The lines weren’t heavily affected through the size difference. Adding the background should pull the scene together. 

[Finished Lines]

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Scene 11 - Lines

I almost got through this video during the session, but this is my progress so far! I’m glad I’m getting through the line art well. 

I did have to change the size of the bush since zoomed in, the original size made all the details difficult to draw. I’m worried about the line difference when the zoom in occurs. 

[Progress]

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=Atmospheric Smoke Notes=

This is another effect that I intend to add onto scene 11, possibly in the bottom corners of the screen to add to the atmosphere of the mostly empty scene.

Create an Atmospheric Smoke Effect in Adobe After Effects

Envato Tuts+

https://youtu.be/ptQ6Re6JvWM

Posted 23 Jan 2019

-Create a new composition

-layer → new → solid (bg layer)

-duplicate BG layer

-rename one above - fractal noise

-select fractal noise → effect → noise and grain → fractal noise

-effects panel]

-set contrast to 75 (experiment with this)

//transform drop down → scale → trail up or down to make smoke larger or smaller//

-OR

-unstick: uniform scaling → can change width (400) and height (250) separately

-set evolution to 100

-alt click keyframe stopwatch on evolution → change to: timex150

Animate direction of smoke

-[in effects panel] under turbulence drop down → offset turbulence → alt click on keyframe stop watch - type: [value[0]+timex100,value[1]-timex20]

-[in effects panel] complexity → 20

Add opacity

-[in layer panel] -close previous drop downs → select factorial noise layer → press T for opacity → 20%

Mask layer

-right click → new mask → transform → adjust

-press F for feather → increase feather, 500

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Lining Scene 2

After I finished compiling the rough animations together, I was finally able to begin lining the animation. Since I initially animated the roughs on procreate and I intend to work on the rest of the process on TVPaint, I had to bring the files over. Thankfully brining in an MP4 file wasn't too overwhelming for the software. It was so much more productive working on TV Paint compared to Procreate due to the layer function. However, working on TVPint means I can't work on my own time and I have to rely on whenever the university has bookings available, which stresses me out a bit but hopefully I'll manage.

For the character animation, rather than animating all the frames, I only animated the frames of him inhaling and duplicated them, placing them backwards for the exhale. And to avoid making it look unnatural, I added an extra frame at the end of the exhale (before it loops back) to give it an irregular feel so everything doesn’t appear repeated even though it is. I’ll only be looping this clip twice for my project, so it’s enough to make it look good.

I animated the spout on a separate layer. Since I didn't add it in my rough version, I sketched out a few keyframes to see how the flow would work. I then added inbetweens, so the idea is that the sprout would have more keyframes than the character animation and would play at its own speed. My first pass of the sprout wasn't smooth; I didn't keep in mind the alignment of the arc that the sprout would bend to. I created a new layer above it and used my first pass as reference. I made sure to line everything up to the same height and watched out for dynamic lining. My third pass was successful.

[Scene 2 - Line Animation]

Note: I will be replaying this clip twice in my animation.

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After Effects Heat Effect Tutorial

I want to add this effect to the edges of the screen of the scenes that have fire in them, especially scene 11. Since it’s mostly empty, I want to add effects to bring the atmosphere alive.

https://youtu.be/3JwUNmw0rQQ

Flat Pack FX

Heat Wave Distortion Effect - After Effects Tutorial

Posted: 31 May 2018

=Distortion effect=

New Comp - Ok

Import file into the new comp

Right Click → new adjustment layer

Effect → Distort → Turbulent Displace

Effects Control

Keyframes for: amount, size, evolution

Set them all to: 0

[in adjustment layer]

~Go to where you want in your timeline for the effect to begin

-key frame 0, then to where you want it to go row to, set it Amount to 25 (right click → easy ease in)

-go to end of comp, create a key frame for size (35) + evolution (6)

[Evolution - acting like a displacement map - animates the effect - creating the movement inside the effect]

-go to middle keyframe, set Size to 25 (easy ease in)

-[effects control] change complexity (2 or 4)

-[Effects and Presets] (right panel) → search for vector blur → drag onto adjustment layer

-[effect panel] under vector blur - drag amount to 10 - helps soften edges of the effect

-if edges of screen revealed:

-[Effects and Presets] - search Motion Tile → drag motion tile onto adjustment layer → [in effects panel] drag it on top of the other effects → output width + output height: drag them out and it should hide the edges → check mirror edges block

-line play head to where you want the animation to flow → [in effects panel/under vector blur] set a keyframe for amount, 10 → drag play line to where you dont want any effect (part where you set the other keyframes at 0) → and set the keyframe to 0

// adjust parameters throughout

[masking]

-select adjustment layer

-select pen tool [g]

-draw mask around selected area

-invert (?) -go to mask layer, drop down → mask feather

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Draft Adjustments

There is a big different when working on larger screens. I spent the workshop sessions working on adjusting my draft on premier since my own laptop kept having difficulties with processing transparent files. Scenes 2-4 worked automatically when I loaded the file which was great. However, once viewing the animation on a larger screen, I felt that the animation of 2nd scene was too fast paced. I had my iPad with me, so I added and extra frame onto each of the frames on the file and it worked well.

I asked for some feedback on the progress of it, and I was suggested to ease the motion of the panning from the first scene as it stops abruptly. Through the 'temporal interpolation' setting, I added the 'ease in' effect and adjusted the motion through the bezier tool. While I was doing this, I also adjusted the motion for scene 5 which also includes a pan scene.

It was a simple fix, however exporting the file became its own problem. Each export seemed to have its own issue. Despite the premier file having everything set out, the first export omitted the final scene and the second export undid the easing in and out i did on the first scene. I’m glad I decided to double check my files to make sure they all come out the intended way, which saved me from having to go back and fix it later.

[Rough Animation - Version 2]

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Rough Animation 1 - Notes 

Scene 1

For the first scene - I uploaded a flat version of the background and then had two different layers of animation on a transparent layer. My intention was to add those two layers on top of the flat background to create one scene, however the importing function wasn't agreeing with me. At first I exported the animation file as an MP4 with a transparent background, imported it into premier, and tried to bring it into the timeline. When I did this the file wouldn't read. I tried the same thing exporting it as a HEVC which I looked up online and is meant for transparent backgrounds, then tried as a PNG file. My last resort was exporting it as a gif, which finally worked but took a long time to render. 

- the flowing leaves by the bank need to be at a slower pace

-the scene in general needs to be extended: dragged out when it reaches the end in order to have time for the title

Scene 2- 4

-overlay the transition

-scene 4: work on the facial expressions more, develop them, use the whole face?

Scene 5

-I need to work on how the pan flows, possibly try animating it on after effects and not premier? Or try it on premier thats not on my laptop. 

Scene 7-9

-the splash needs to be worked on, make it slightly more bigger, fixe the timing

-point where the skull shape forms in the water, maybe take more time to forms and clear into the fire

-second pass of the fire - it seems to neat, mix it up a bit 

Scene 10

-i need to add a layer for the fire animation - I’m not sure how to do that, so i might wait to start on tv paint with that 

Scene 11

-I put it together on premier and didn’t get the look i was hoping for, the transition for the animation was too smooth, so I tried to put it together on procreate.

-I had the background sketched out on one layer on a canvas sized 3840x2160 so when I zoom in the quality wont be lost. I animated the character separately on the same sized canvas for the same reason.

To join them, i brought the background into the animation file and then sized down the character animation to fit in with the background. And it worked. I added the zoomed in parts similar to the animatic but with a few more inbetweens and the effect is what I wanted.

Scene 12

-I want to fix the eyes

-add more time before the character wakes up - possibly background animation?

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Scene 8

I drew up rough sketch for it but I got stuck on how i want to animate it. I think i should just stick to animating the fire for now.

I continued on from the last few frames of 7th scene and animated from there. I have a first pass of the fire and the 8-9 scene. So I finally have everything thrown together as my 1st pass of the rough animation. I need to fix the areas I noted down, other cases where the timing isnt correct and i can send it to receive feedback. 

[Rough]

I animated a whole scene I didn't need. I misunderstood my own animatic. I was behind on my schedule and Instead of referencing back to it, I decided to animate ahead the scene, spent two days looking for references and refining it. However the outcome is not how i imagined it to be, it's awkward. But when I looked back to my animatic to see if I missed anything, I was disappointed to see that the scene didn't even have that much animation.

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Scene 11

[Keyframes] - There’s one rough pass - need to work on the timing and spacing of the key frame

-I want the first few frames to move slowly. I worked on this as a straight forward animation and animated enough key frames for it to be smooth.

The final few frames of the scene when there will be a close up → I was thinking that want his hair to rise up in shock like in Ghibli movies! 

[Kiki’s Delivery Service Gif]

[Rough Final]

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Scene 10 

I tried to look for references for this scene but the motion of branches breaking were hard to come by. I didn't want to spend too much time searching for one so I just animated straight ahead and then went back to add in-betweens.

I started with animating the branch being affected by the fire - the timing between this part and the tree breaking which I had to play around with until it worked.

[Roughing out the placement]

[Rough Final]

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Scene 12 

My first pass of the rough animation for this scene - i took the drawing i did for my animatic and cleaned them up, adding a few more in-betweens but I wasn’t sure the motion was right. 

So I filmed another reference video of myself executing that action and animated a few key frames and it worked out well! The drawings were quite rough and unfinished, but even then they have a natural flow.

[Initial rough test]

[Reference Video]

[1st rough pass]

[4th pass]

[5th pass with adjusted timing]

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Scene 2

This was another scene I tried to cheat my way through by warping frames to make the character appear like he was breathing. However it didn’t work out the way I intended so I turned to referencing my self. It was very awkward to act out breathing visibly. 

[Reference]  

[First pass with reference]

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Scene 4 Developments

I refilled my reference video to see if there was anything I could add to the animation. The overall action was similar. I then decided the action should be eased in, rather than waking up with a start, he should feel a disturbance.

[Re-filmed reference video]

[Facial Expression Reference]

[Draft Update] - I feel like the scene reads better with the updates and the flow makes more sense now.