Progression Reel Evaluation 2D
During the production of my 2D animated scenes I have gone through a series of test to better design the animations but some of these animation were slightly cut down at the end due to low amount of time for production.
On all the scenes I animated my character on, I have always started out by simply animating the character’s body without any cloths. This was done to help me understand the bodies action without the interference of clothes. Whithout the cloths I tend to find it easier to see where the body parts go and it helped me keep the portions from action to action.
The cloths where later animated on a separate layer above the body. With the first animation test of mainly the body done I found it much easier to know where exactly the cloths go and how to animate its movement. By following the actions of the body the clothes are much more simple to animate.
At the end after the cloths are successfully animated I mainly add small action on the hair. The hair is also animated in a different layer from the body and clothes.
To achieve the amount of movements on each of the scenes took me quite a large mount of time but unfortunately some of these actions had to be later reduced or completely removed due to the short amount of time before the hand in.
As I have been responsible to animate the boy character and also take part in the productions of the 3d assets i did not have enough time to completely clean up all the different animations I tested out in rough. As time was getting short and we wanted to have a final animation with all the different scene included i decided to reduce the amount of frames on some scenes as well as turning some scenes that initially had smaller actions into simple still images.
I was not very pleased because I had to cut down the different animations I worked so hard in producing but it was more important to have a complete piece of work at the end than to have it missing areas all around. As my character was the one driving the whole story it was important what he was present on all the scenes he was meant to be or the viewers would not be able to understand the story.
After i sketched out the whole animation I also cleaned up all of them them and got them ready to colour. Initially I started out by doing all the colouring but as time was once again getting short I decided to give the work of filling in the colours on each of the farmers of the animation to someone else. this reduced my worked load and allowed me to work on other areas of the animation i was responsible for like the 3D world and its animation. Most of the colouring had been done by other people but I have also taken part in colouring a few of the scenes.
After most of the colouring was done I took back the different animations and added shading to them. This was a decision I took to help keep consistency in the final work. Filling in the colours on the gaps can be done by mostly anyone but as i have done the shading for the initial animations I colluder if someone was to do it I believe the end result would not be as similar as it was in the beginning.
Keeping consistency was the main focus we all had within the group. As we all have our own drawing style which sometimes did not match we choose to make sure that only one person was responsible to animate a certain character and produce anything that was relevant to the scene they appeared on.
Overall I believe this production was successful, as we were able to work correctly within the group. We all were able to get our specific scenes done to the best of our abilities and I believe that if we had more time we could have produced a much better final animation.
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