From rough to finish
I wanted to write about this scene because I think it’s interesting to see how sometimes the final version can be totally different from the animatic.
1. Here is the animatic for this scene, as you can see the drawings and the timing are a little ambiguous. Sometimes the animatic is super clear and you only have to cleanup and inbetween, sometimes is up to the animator to propose a timing and a design.
2. This was the rough I suggested to the director, as you can see it’s still very rough but shows already how I want the movement to be and the timing.
3. Here are the notes from the director: “the initial FX are a little too busy. so between frames 17 - 25 want to avoid covering whole screen with FX such as the teal FX are too big here . Don't change FX on characters though. Want it to feel like Jaina is shooting down the cone of cold FX from above them and not from the point of view of the camera.”
4. I did the changes, and here is the scene with final comp.
That is it! hope you find this useful, if you want to check out the whole thing the video is here
