Wednesday, 20 March 2019

Competition Weekly - Submission to D&AD

I spent a day tweaking the animation to make the whole thing fit the beat of the music. I also prepped the submission, pending Damo and Eleni's final scenes.

Eleni couldn't tweak her picking up mirror scene in time but I think I was able to make it look better with some zoom, blur and repositioning in After Effects.


Damo was able to pull off an all-nighter and keyframe his last scene so that it looked almost finished. Eleni gave me the roughs for her last scene too and I noticed that she was trying to animate a lot more than she actually needed to (animating the whole reference video instead of a section that would fit the animatic timing) and I let her know after I updated the final animation in progress.


With everyone's parts together, this was what we submitted to D&AD:



What I've learnt:

  • How to add a timecode in After Effects
  • How to generally improve the look of an animation in After Effects

What went well:


  • Adding strings to the soundtrack
  • Addition of crowds and car
  • Proportions on Damo's scenes
  • Face warp behind the lights


What could be improved:
  • Some of the backgrounds could still be tweaked (if there is time)
  • Shoulder movement and hand animation when the main character picks up the mirror
  • More crowds in some of the scenes (if there is time)
  • The proportions on some of Eleni's scenes are a bit off

I'm hopeful that once this streak of deadlines from other modules is over, everyone will have time to finish off their parts before the final submission.

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