Week 11/12 Animation

Following on from the first animation I had produced and presented to an informal presentation as mentioned in the previous post, I produced my animation in the style that I wanted to have it as in its final form and then presented it. I got a couple of tips here and there about certain features like the eye movement being too slow or more eyebrow expression which I managed to add and am now pleased with, I believe that the characters show enough emotion towards each other and effectively carry the illusion of these characters understanding emotion in works parallel with the voice recordings. Animating your own voice, as painful as it is can have benefits too such as mouth shapes; if you get stuck, look in a mirror! Overall, I am happy with how the animation has turned out, the emotions are clear and the characters present those emotions very well. The lines bubble a bit too much perhaps? OR maybe the animation would all be like this, being highly stylistic and maybe even exaggerated? Regardless, I feel there is nothing more I can add to this shot without taking away it's effectiveness.

Week 11/12 Animatic 2

After completing first Animatic, I received feedback on my work which included tidying up the drawings and replacing the final shot with a slightly different angle. I also decided to turn this animatic into an advanced animatic to show movement directions as well as camera directions to easily demonstrate the final outcome of the film. I redrew each shot in a cleaner, more detailed environment, including background colour and depth of field. This makes the animatic much more true to the final outcome, demonstrating the colour palette taken into account from the mood board and also from the character sheets as well as demonstrating the interesting movements in the scenes, such as the scene when the socks are being "attacked", I wanted to make the socks seem literally horrified because they'd only ever been worn before, not taken away in a box but the strangest part for them was being taken away without their pairs because of them not being "good enough". At closer inspection, it is more obvious that I have added ware and tear to Anger and Envy which is why the woman only chose those 2 in particular. I may add more to the box but I wouldn't want to over complicate the shot and take the focus away from the main characters here. The final shot of the homeless person wearing the socks I actually had to change because during one of our informal presentations for practice, we saw that the final shot in the first animatic zoomed in onto not the socks, but between the homeless man's legs. Obviously this had everyone in stitches but it now meant that I had to redo that shot using the same story idea but changing the position. I eventually came up with the idea of using the laid down shot being as though it would give me a change to show the living conditions too and showing that they wear them to bed because it is so cold without funding for heating or hot food or blankets, etc. So the message becomes clear that they need your unused socks. I believe this new animatic delivers that message perfectly.