Production Week 6

This week I've been mainly working on my walk cycles of the crowd. Darren pointed out to me that I should work out the basic general walk cycle first and then add the details of the characters later. With the help of Jack I did another walk cycle of 9 frames but that was only for one step. I tested it in After Effects with Jack and this is the first draft




I had heaps of trouble rendering this short walk cycle from After Effects (it crashed 9 times out of 10) which is a bit of a worry as this is only a test and when I animate my scenes later with different backgrounds etc, it could pose as a big problem.

I plan on having all of the backgrounds done on the weekend as I really need to put my foot down and just work on them. I have also done another walk cycle which I'll add the details of the characters as well. This time it is a two step instead of one which I will scan in class next week.

Production Week 5

I have attempted at another walk cycle under the guidance of Jack. I shall scan it at school next week and fingers crossed it works! It's of the woman with the dotted dress again.

I have also used watercolour to paint the background for the park.
And also I did a test for the shop background. So this is a just a draft. I'm still trying to work out what colour I should paint the other shops. I'm thinking mostly warm colours such as brown, red and orange, that way when I paint Timmy and Lily cool colours (blue and maybe green or purple) they'll stand out more.

Previously I had that shop as a cupcake store, but as I was painting it I wanted to take advantage of the warm colour soI painted muffins instead.

Another thing I have changed are Timmy's shoes. They're just pointier instead of round.

In terms of sound, the only rough cut I have is the sound I did for my animatic. I've still got to foley some sound effects.

Progress notes

I've been trying to draw key poses for one of the shots which is proving more difficult than I thought. It is where Timmy is examining his nose in the shop window and I've been find it difficult to draw how I imagined it in my head. As I'm thumbnailing it, it keeps changing because I want to draw it like he's pressing his face up to the window so the perspective is a little bit tricky. And also his right hand touches his nose and sort of uncurls it. Drawing the uncurling nose part is also a bit hard so I'm going to spend a bit more time trying to figure out this shot in terms of perspective. This is just a rough thumbnail of how the finger is uncurling the nose.

Production Week 4

This week I have continued to draw further key poses. I have also started to work on the walk cycle on one of the crowd members which is of a big lady with dots on her dress which is fairly difficult as I think walk cycles are tricky and they can be very hard to do if I have little knowledge of where to start the right way. So so far I'm not sure whether I've been doing it right and don't know whether they'll turn out right at all. I have drawn 9 frames and will test them out in After Effects and see how I go
Jack has pointed out to me in class very handy points in a walk cycle. He demonstrated several useful walk cycles and drawn them as examples. I will try and use his examples and start the walk cycle again and certainly put in more frames so this time around I hope I have the steps right.

Production Week 3

I've been working on my key poses for my scenes as Jack has suggested. I have recently bought a drawing table that I could use as a light box as I need everything to be consistent so I will be using that to draw my key poses and in betweens.

So far I have been putting off painting the background as I'm not sure how I'd best to approach it. The way I planned it was I'd watercolour paint the background but the probably is that if I paint it on a normal sheet of paper, because it's watercolour I'm afraid it'll make the paper wrinkle and when I scan that in it'll look horrible. So what I think I'm going to do is buy one of those thicker paper made for watercolour and I could take a photo of it with the highest quality like Darren suggested. Or I could try scanning it as well.