Study Task 7 and 8 - Animatics and Soundscapes; Keyframes, Extremes and In-Betweens

For the animatic, I finished off all the backgrounds to be used in the animation and fully animated the segment where Beryl is caught by Mark the bully. As a result, the actual animatic was very time consuming to make but I'm hoping it has saved me time in the future.

Beryl the Peril Animatic (The version submitted to DNAD was anonymised as per their requirements) 

The creative process for the animatic (and stop motion puppet)

What worked well:

• The choice of sound and voice acting
• The arcs and follow through in the slingshot
• The lip syncing
• The story can be followed fairly easily

What could be improved:

• Timing will have to be tweaked here and there for the actual animation
• Some movements will potentially be difficult and/or time consuming to animate for the final piece (like Princess' run cycle)
• Further development of keyframes, extremes and in-betweens for the final part

Study Task 6 - Scripting and Storyboarding

My original script for the Beano animation gave the little girl a much bigger role to play but the majority of it ultimately had to be cut to keep the animation within a reasonable time frame.

Original script

I made some rough thumbnails for the storyboard as a guide but for the actual animatic, I'll be completing the backgrounds and doing as much of the animation as possible to save time on it in the future.

Rough storyboard

Study Task 4 - Maya 4: Backgrounds

This week we were using Maya to model out our Beano backgrounds as a means of previsualisation to help with the backgrounds and storyboarding. I ultimately made a model of the inside of the electronics store for one of my scenes, and also a tree which took a few attempts because Maya kept crashing.

This was fun to make despite the number of attempts it took

This acted as a reference to one of my 3D-ish scenes

What worked well:

• Rotating my tree trunk cylinder before branching it out to add to that tree texture
• The store model became a good reference for one of my scenes

What could be improved:

• Changing the shape of the tree foliage so it doesn't look so much a like a Savannah tree
• Perhaps adding colour to my store scene