In the final week of Performance and Character, we had a support and advice session with our tutors and it gave us chance to refine and adjust our animation exercises ready for the showreel and submission this week.
I showed my Short story exercise to Johny and he was very impressed, but I felt I still needed to improve on some frames. My goal today was to refine and clean up some of my animations namely the dialogue, rejected lover, climb and baby walk. Per Johny's advice last week I worked on the eyes of the characters as he suggested the eye balls needed some white in them to better define the eye colours and show who they're looking at. After his explanation it made sense so I applied it to the animation file.
The animation itself I cleaned up the lines and any rough edges within it.
The climb animation adjustment was to alter the throw, from an under arm throw to an over arm throw to show more height in tossing the smoke bomb. To help me I asked Stephan to help me recored some reference footage. In stop motion I resisted my rejected lover to improve the walk of the character.
I felt concerned when we discussed the show reel as next semester we would be sending it off to potential clients for our next module. The issue being was the use of stick men rather than detailed characters in my animations minus the dialogue piece. I was worried if the clients didn't like my work I wouldn't get notice and may compromise my future as a potential animator.
I was feeling confident in what I was doing with the animations particularly the rejected lover as I followed the reference footage more closely to better show the walk and adjusted the bend in the spine to show how rejected he was. I was rather concerned with how I was doing the throw in the climb exercise as it was hard to communicate the movements from one perspective to another.
In hindsight I should've taken the footage from different angles to see which would be better to work from in the bar sheets.
However I was beginning to see the sense in todays session as Johny showed us a template for our showreels that we could use. This was something James our IT tutor had done for us. I may consider looking at this when bringing my show reel together.
Looking back on the session I would think that I have a lot of work to prepare for submission but was confident I could get it submitted on time. There may need to be some improvements in my Climb animation but I would alter that as I made it over this week. I plan to create my showreel upon finishing the exercise refinements and make sure I have all my storyboards for my exercise.
In conclusion I am on track with my work and hope to have everything submitted by the deadline.
In future I shall list what animations need refining and consider the angles used so I can use better reference footage.
I showed my Short story exercise to Johny and he was very impressed, but I felt I still needed to improve on some frames. My goal today was to refine and clean up some of my animations namely the dialogue, rejected lover, climb and baby walk. Per Johny's advice last week I worked on the eyes of the characters as he suggested the eye balls needed some white in them to better define the eye colours and show who they're looking at. After his explanation it made sense so I applied it to the animation file.
The climb animation adjustment was to alter the throw, from an under arm throw to an over arm throw to show more height in tossing the smoke bomb. To help me I asked Stephan to help me recored some reference footage. In stop motion I resisted my rejected lover to improve the walk of the character.
Reference footage
I felt concerned when we discussed the show reel as next semester we would be sending it off to potential clients for our next module. The issue being was the use of stick men rather than detailed characters in my animations minus the dialogue piece. I was worried if the clients didn't like my work I wouldn't get notice and may compromise my future as a potential animator.
In hindsight I should've taken the footage from different angles to see which would be better to work from in the bar sheets.
Looking back on the session I would think that I have a lot of work to prepare for submission but was confident I could get it submitted on time. There may need to be some improvements in my Climb animation but I would alter that as I made it over this week. I plan to create my showreel upon finishing the exercise refinements and make sure I have all my storyboards for my exercise.
In conclusion I am on track with my work and hope to have everything submitted by the deadline.
In future I shall list what animations need refining and consider the angles used so I can use better reference footage.
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