Animating the Animatic

The Brief was to create an animatic that was 40 seconds long with three fully animated scenes. My initial intention was to make both the plot and the character design simple so that I would be able to manage my time effectively and get the work done. The three fully animated scenes that I had to create were a walk cycle, a close up with a change of three facial expressions and a mid-shot with three different hand gestures. For my animation I decided to use boiling so that the finished animatic felt more so like an animation than an unfinished piece. Im really happy with how all the animations came out, I think the walk cycle was probably the hardest to perfect as there were so many factors that had to work, from the motion of the hair to the arms and legs moving. I also decided to add my own idea having a ball that is moving, I felt this was a good technique as it allowed me to practise some principles of animation such as squash and stretch as well as focusing on how an object reacts with physics. It was important to me that the animation in my work was quite expressive and by looking at influences such as Genndy Tartakovsky, I found it very helpful to see how I'd go about animating in this sense. Considering it was my first time properly animating something moving I'm pretty happy with how it came out, I would've loved to had more time so I could have maybe done even more but for an animatic I think I've done really well.

Animating the animatic

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