SPnU, HoS and Dance Project Update - roughs and cleanups

I have been admittedly distracted by pandemic related issues, however I've been able to get in some work for both Sleep Paralysis and You and Heart of Stone.

Sleep Paralysis and You

I haven't quite finished tweaking some of my roughs but I did manage to do some cleanups:

I think the cleanups are generally looking good, but I still need to alter the hand movement in the Cheek Caress scene and the Fire Reveal scene might need more exaggerated facial features and movement. I do like the squash and stretch/follow through of the face when he startles awake though.

I've also redone the top of the head on the 8_UWU cleanup because it was previously wiggling due to lack of line consistency. I think it looks much better now:

Heart of Stone

We had a group meeting at one point to get feedback on our current progress, and I hadn't noticed the arms were too short in my Torch scene. I have since corrected this and added some tweens so it can be passed over to Prathik to rough out the fire animation:

Scene 3 - Torch

I have also roughed out a couple of other scenes, which I'll ask for feedback on our roughs deadline. Halli made a great mouth shapes reference to be used on our lip syncing scenes which I've applied to one of my scenes. I've also made a reference video for Medusa's movement in my 8_Pan scene but I've yet to rough it out.

Scene 10 - Medusa Dip

Scene 30 - Zoom of Realisation

What worked well:

• The lip syncing and the poses for the Medusa Dip scene
• The turn on the Zoom scene

What could be improved:

• The snakes might be too thick in the Medusa Dip scene
• Unsure about the last Medusa facial expression in the dip scene
• Some of the movement might be too fast in the Zoom scene
• Some of parts of both scenes will need more tweens once I'm sure the team are happy with it.

Dance Animation Project

Jenny finished editing the dance videos to be rotoscoped and let me know what she wanted effects on. I wasn't clear on one of the scenes where the dancer is supposed to 'disappear by boiling away' on a jump and then reappear on landing so I made a rough test of the scene with my interpretation of disappearing and reappearing and Jenny liked it a lot.

I personally think it's too simplified at the moment so I'll be redoing this properly at some point.

SPnU, HoS and Dance Project Update - roughs, cleanups and tests

Sleep Paralysis and You

Prathik compiled everyone's roughs together and made some notes on what needed to be changed, including some facial expressions that weren't continuous between cuts. The scenes that were worked on and altered were:

Last still frame tweaked for consistency with character design

Drawings were stretched out to make it more consistent with one of Prathik's scenes

Arm length was tweaked as it changed height in a few frames

The initial hop was cut due to it being 'too happy' and a few frames were held a bit longer

Cracks were animated

Tweaked the thumb in in the last frame as it was off

Re-animated Kilo's eyebrows and redid the tears, added a missing eyebrow frame for Penny

What worked well:

• I was a little disappointed about the hop needing to be cut but it'll make it easier to cleanup in the end, the rest of the tweaks work well in general
• The scenes are more consistent and have better continuity with Prathik and Damo's scenes now

What could be improved:

• The hand arc in Scene 18 is a bit off and will need tweaking
• The hands in general need to be animated in the zoomed out scenes of Demon Penny
• The last still shot with Kilo on the gurney still needs to be tweaked as it is too static

Testing the demon eyes

Prathik asked me to test out some eye styles for the demon as he originally had wanted something similar to the eye style of Don't Starve but after testing out a few different styles, we all collectively agreed that the simple glowy eyes were the most appealing and the easiest to keep consistent.

This style boiled with too much inconsistency

This style looked alright but there was not that much gained compared the effort of producing the effect

The simple glowy eyes is what we all decided looked the best without unnecessary effort

In the end, this is what the cleanup looked like for this scene, and I'm pleased with how it looks.

Heart of Stone

I finished off the Torch rough I started and made a start on a couple of other roughs.

Scene 5 - Torch

Scene 8 - Pan

What worked well:

• Adding a tween for when the man picks up the torch
• Raising his shoulders and lowering his head when Medusa walks by
• Also moving the sword closer as the man cowers

What could be improved:

• Consistency with mouth shapes in the Torch scene
• Adding the Medusa character animation
• Adding some hair follow-through when he moves in the panning scene

Dance Animation Project

Jenny hasn't given my any scenes to add effects to as of yet but I took one of her rotoscoped animation tests and added some wing morphs. She was happy with how the test turned out.