Animation Progress

 

 

I began by doing the walk cycle which appears in scene 1 as shown in the storyboard.

I then decided it would be best to create a rough of the entire animation before actually refining it. Above is the extremely rough version. By the time this animation is actually finished with all of the effects which im adding in post etc i expect it to be about double this length.

I then refined the line art, as much as was reasonable within the time scale. In my final post I will discuss certain elements and why there are the way they are. For the interests of time I have reduced the number of frames and the complexity of the illustration. my number one concern is to tell the story in full, and this story requires colour in order to be told effectively, so I must make sure there is time for colouring this animation, that element cannot go unfinished. I am also a little anxious as I have never coloured an animation before, so its going to be a new learning experience and may have some road blocks to overcome.

And here is the animation with colour! Next up will  be adding sound. I have stuck mostly to the storyboard however there is a couple of additional elements that I thought of along the way. I ended up colouring in adobe animate as I could not for the life of me get the file to convert into photoshop. this is a shame as I am much better at painting in photoshop, however I knew something of this kind would arise during this project due to my lack of experience and so I'm glad I set aside extra time for it.