Key Frames - Rabbit Life

Just a few keyframes from the first scene of my film for you to look at with your eyes. I am enjoying the way its looking, although i am aware of the fact the characters could easily get lost in the backgrounds. I'll have to have a think about that.

Sea Rescue Project.

For our final group project last year we were given sound snipets and then told to animate to them, they were stories of rescue at sea. We chose eventually to go really dark with ours and kill off a couple of children, to put it bluntly.  We never finished the film because of post production issues.

We chose to do ours in cut out style as there is something really charming about it, I drew out the anamatic after Paris and I deliberated over the shots, we got this thrown together quite quickly and after talking with ann made some massive character changes and plot changes. With the German Expressionism influencing our film with other animations such as the Cabinet of Dr Calagari I went ahead with character design and drawing up the waves while Paris did the backgrounds. We did all the character animation in the stop motion room green screened under a line tester, it was a fun but time consuming endeavour. Paris and I then edited it all together on After effects and Andrea tried to put in some 3d smoke on Maya, some issues were had with this but in the future i would like to get it finished. I also tested out some faces with toon boom.

Here are a few of the shots, as i said it was never finished so sadly there is no whole film to watch.

Atmospheric..

Spoiler, they die. 

Probably my personal favourite. 

You know what, i was pretty chuffed with that font! 

So there you go, something to waste your eye energy on. 

FROM FLAT TO A BIT LESS FLAT.

This here is an adaptation piece, I originally drew the image on photoshop which took a painstakingly long time but I was very happy with it in the end. It was an adaptation of another image of Istanbul I think but I modernised it and drew it as a city scape because that's what I have grown up with. I then put it into toonboom and added some secondary animation, I had no intention to make it a life like sort of animation because the image itself is very flat and cartoony which is the style I like. So I put in some animation which went with that style.

I like using toon boom but it crashed on me a lot and i'd never used it before so I had no idea what I was doing! Still pretty happy with the outcome though!