Telling Tales - Week 7

This week I was mostly in MAF, however before I left I was able to sneak in another background for the animation.

We also applied much of Dotty's advice and the animatic has been cut down substantially since its original size.

We got the lineart character turnaround for the elderly Shireen and Emily played around with some flowery textures that we all chipped in on. I wanted to use an effect to keep the scarf texture static while the character moves and Emily made a boiling lineart test for me to test the effects in AfterEffects.

Testing the Alpha Matting effect with different textures

Testing the same effect with the boiling lineart

With the backgrounds in place we've come to the agreement that the reddish scarf suits the animation better.

What worked well:

• The new background being consistent with the other backgrounds in the animation
• Changing the beginning to shorten the time
• The reddish scarf texture
• I liked the alpha matting effect on the scarf texture

What could be improved:

• Adding placeholder sounds to the animatic