Animation 1

Here is the first animation test; for the establishing shot of my film.

I have added skin tone to the boy to make him stand out as a living being amoung fictional holograms. I dont like it, but it will tell the story better

Dragon Redesigned

After feedback on tuesday, i realised that the body shape for my dragon was all wrong. it needed to be more balanced with a better shape to the spine, larger feet and tail and smaller head. Also with slightly wackier features to make it more like the creation of an 8 year old boy

Here is the new design. Much prefer this one

Final designs

This week rather than start on animation, i really wanted to nail down some final designs for my important characters. Here are the final ref sheets for the Boy and the Dragon in the film. I am taking a step backwards and returning to the sketchy style of lines and shading, to go with the theme of drawing. The dragon will have changing shadows, as it is meant to be a malfunctioned creature, and i want him to appear both scary and friendly, which is difficult with set shades. If i can change the shadows, i can help emphasis the emotion a bit. So he is pure white unlike the other creatures in the film, but with shadows when necessary.

Creatures

Here are some quick rough designs/ideas for the supporting creatures in the film. They are meant to be a mix of cybertronic and organic beings, which explains the robotic features combined with skin etc.

Final Animatic

Final because even if it needs changing i dont want to be wasting any more time on it. Any changes can be fixed during the animation stage now

The music track i bought fits very well with it. It may need some chopping and changing to get it to work better in places but i'll handle that after the animation, when i know the exact length of each shot etc

Overall very happy with it so far

Animatic progress

So unfortunately as there is alot of work involved in fixing up my animatic and putting it together with the audio, i'm unable to get it done before this friday submission. It should be done over the weekend though, so here is an apology and some preview shots to prove im not slacking off.

Animatic - First draft

Here is the first version of the animatic. it has changed alot now, but i wanted to show the original version as was before.

Storyboard that got cut

So after talking over with my tutors, we've decided to cut the second half of my film, or epilogue part. This is saddening but it does mean not so much stress when it comes to making it, and i can focus on making the more important section of the film look awesome.
Anyway, i had started storyboarding the epilogue so here is how far i got with it -->

Storyboard NEW - part 1

I realised after a lecture on storyboards that i needed to redo alot of mine. Since the first storyboard alot of things have changed such as character designs and setting, and i've changed my mind on certain shots. Here is the revamped storyboard for the first part of my film:

Character Lineups

This weeks homework task. Here are the two lineups for my film, for part 1 and part 2 respectively

Designs and colours may change, this is just a basic design to build on at this stage, but at the moment i am quite happy with how they look