Week 6

This week I completed the animation for the box transition from valentines day to a birthday. I spent some time researching how to best create the effect we were looking for with the confetti while still sticking to the style we were working with. Eventually I decided the best way to do this was to create custom brushes and individual layers to create an overlapping effect. This also helped with offsetting the speed of the confetti so it didn't all fall at the same rate.

I feel that the finished product is effective and looks aesthetically pleasing.

I also began testing the transition to the birthday scene, trying to figure out the timings and the positioning. However because the background for this scene is not yet complete I wasn't able to create the finished transition style and can only test certain elements. 

Next I will be continuing to animate this scene and hopefully starting animation on other scenes.

Week 5

This week I began testing out some of the animation transitions. Here is an example of this work showing part of the valentines day transition. We decided to use actual gift wrap from John Lewis for these transitions, with both the box and the background being gift wrap we purchased.

I think the animation of the box went really well and has some good squash and stretch, as well as the timings working well.

However, when testing the confetti that we want to have explode out of the box I found this a lot more difficult then expected. The confetti ended up looking unnatural as it all fell at the same time, but creating individual pieces of confetti will take far too much time to animate with the time we have. I plan to do more research into this to find a better solution.

I also created the final planned character board which shows side views of each character. Initially I wanted to create a full turnaround for each but due to time constraints we decided it would be best to just have side views.

Week 4

This week I continued with the character boards and completed the main board for the father as well as the guide board and heights board.

For the father board I chose a green based colour scheme to contrast well with the other characters colour bases as well as giving him brown hair and a slightly deeper skin tone. However, I have had comments suggesting that perhaps he looks a little too young so I plan on playing with the design a bit to improve this.

The guide board and height board are mainly for use of my group to help them understand the structure of the character and how to draw them as well as their heights in relation to each other. I feel like this will be very useful for my group and will speed up the process of them learning how to draw each character.

Next I will be creating basic turnaround boards for the characters and starting to test animations

Week 3

This week I completed the first two character designs which are the child and the mother. I chose to give each character their own base colour scheme that they stick with throughout the animation. The child has a blue and white scheme while the mum has a yellow and orange scheme. This makes them easily identifiable and gives them all a unique look.

I have also created a basic outline of their structure for my group so it is easier for them to draw these characters. However, to improve this I plan to create a board with all these outlines as well as instructions and tips to go with them.

Next I will be continuing with these boards snd hoping to have the main ones finished by next week.