Animation Principles Completed Sequence

 
Well, here it is, the completed sequence. I've actually had this done for almost a week now but I was too embarrassed to upload it! 

I'm really not at all happy with how the cleanup stage turned out. I feel a lot of character has been lost in the process and the animation just looks a lot stiffer now than it did before. The stair climb, especially — I originally animated it on ones but shot it on twos and it's really suffered for it. I can still see so many mistakes — missing inbetweens, dodgy arcs (particularly on that angry walk) but I think there comes a point you just need to say "I'm done working on this." Have I said that on my Digital Skills blog already?

I opted not to add the bannister on the stairs. I found it difficult to draw without it completely getting in the way and it just looked sort of odd, floating there — plus I quite like the idea that the character is almost a kind of mime — though that excuse would work better if I'd not drawn the stairs ;]

Still, it's nice to see it finished after so much stress and strain. The sound isn't too sophisticated... a bit hastily slapped on but I think it adds a nice little finish. It sounds a bit squiffy when burned to a DVD for some reason so I may need to look at tweaking that a little.

I'm not entirely sure what I'm typing at the moment. Feeling pretty tired, so forgive my incoherence!

Whilst I'm here, behold my DVD/menu designs:


I'm secretly quite pleased with these. Normally I'm horrendous at this kind of thing; design and presentation aren't usually my strongest points (gulp) so it was nice to see these come together fairly well. Simple but effective I feel! Not yet gotten around to the box design but it will be in a similar vein — I'm thinking of using the scene with Gustave at the bottom of the stairs or something. We'll see what Mr Photoshop conjures up...

2 comments:

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I don't know what you were so worried about :P The finished animation looks amazing! It's good to see all of the sequences I've seen you working on come together as the entire film. I can definitely see the character there, I could tell what he was feeling with each different walking cycle. When he stepped in the puddle and then stomped away made me laugh 8D I love how you've faded the titles out at the beginning and then the character enters. Plus the designs for your DVD, menu and disc, look superb! Very neat and professional methinks. I ish jealous :P

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I think it looks great! You don't have anything to worry about, I'm sure this'll do very well. There's always that strange loss of quality in movement when going from rough squiggly outlines to an actual character, it happens all the time to me. I think it came out great in the end, though. It was neat seeing all the progress bit by bit as you made this, you'll definitely do well when it comes to assessment.

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