Telling Tales - Week 9

Following this week's group critique, we were advised to complete the character designs as it is the only thing needed now to start the actual animating. Emily took over the task of completing the character designs while Natalie's main focus will be sounds. I also took some videos of Natalie for us to use as a reference later.

Dotty gave some insight into the ending and we've decided to change it to something less depressing and she advised that it was better to keep the scarf texture static otherwise it was too distracting. while Emily focused on finishing the character designs this week, I made the treasure map asset and edited Emily's ending storyboards to fit the new ending (belatedly realising I drew the hands from the wrong perspective but the team are aware of this) and this has been updated into the animation in progress.

The treasure map asset (There is space at the top for the title)

Emily also made a suggestion to suddenly cut off the music near the end and the resulting ending is now effectively far more dramatic. 

Original version with placeholder music continuing to the end

New version with dramatic music cut off at end

What worked well:

• Changing the ending storyboards
• The dramatic version of the animatic works better

What could be improved:

• The split screen segments need to hold for longer to give more time to absorb what's going on in the scenes