Thursday 9 May 2019

Extended Practice - Animation?

From the beginning of extended practice, I told myself that I was going to animate my final film as well as produce an awesome animatic would showed off some dynamic angles and framing, whilst telling a cool story. Which I held on to far too much. Before I had finished my storyboarding, I started animating on the first shot, getting way too ahead of myself. Here is this animation:

What changed? 

As I was working on this animation, and looking at the schedule I had laid out for myself before the hand in, I decided to take a step back and ask whether I wanted to rush this film I wanted to make my most dynamic animation yet. The answer I came to was no, I had not yet finished cleaning up my animatic and my last live brief was still to be done at this time, so I decided not to animate my final film. Yet. As of now my plan is to give myself time after this hand in to animate on it with some help from others, to have it in our final year show, as I want to give it the necessary time to make it as good as it can be.

My main specialism this year has been storyboarding, and that has not changed, so I wanted to give the storyboards their due respect and have them be as good as I can currently make them, rather than rush to finish my storyboards and then rush to animate a final film that I wouldn't be happy to submit.

I believe my animation will look awesome in the final year show alongside the others, and that will come from giving it the time and work it deserves.

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