Telling Tales - Week 8

This week I made a couple more backgrounds and added some placeholder sounds to an updated animatic. It took a few attempts before I got the textures and colours I wanted and Emily's advice on this was very helpful.

Testing out different textures for the back wall and the pillars

Final background with a purple theme

I particular had a lot of fun with the mirror long shot. After much experimentation it boiled down to four mirrors and we picked the one that suited the setting the best.

All four choices were substituted into the animation but the fourth mirror was best suited due to the mystical feel

I also experimented with the colours and Emily and I decided on a goldish mirror to make it stand out

Following this I tested out some alpha matting effects for this background within the animation with the following results.

I added some blurring to the foreground for some depth and Emily really liked it too

I also made two different versions of the animation in progress with some added placeholder sounds, and people seem to be veering more towards the style of the second version.

First version of the animatic with sounds

Second version with different sounds and placements

What worked well:

• Purple colour scheme of cave interior backgrounds
• The mystical mirror design and colours
• the blue fire alpha matting

What could be improved:

• The title should fade out before the map goes down