I've taken a short hiatus from Sleep Paralysis and You to catch up on my parts for the projects I'm helping out with.
Heart of Stone
When I roughed out Medusa walking across the pan scene, it became clear early on that she had too much background to walk across and some of her movements needed to be altered for the timing - she was originally going to look around at "now now don't run, don't hide" but it had to be pushed earlier to the instrumental part for her to reach the other side of the background in time. It still worked well thankfully, and Halli is aware that the background will need to be shorter now.
The feedback for the Medusa Dip scene was that the snakes needed to move slower at the end when spotting the man. The snake lengths were also a bit too short, so I redid the snakes and feel they look much better now. I also did a background test and though the man fit in fine with some tweaking, Medusa's size was disproportionately small compared to the front statue even after panning her to the correct position. Halli is aware of this and will tweak the size of the statue and position of the statue's hand before Hannah cleans up the scene.
I also tweaked the final zoom segment so the snakes tweened more and added a couple of frames to loop while Medusa is zooming out.
What worked well:
- Tweening the snakes in both scenes and slowing down their movements to appear more snake-like
- The altered timing of the movements for the pan scene despite not being in the intended position still work well with the soundtrack
- The panning test generally worked despite the shortened background
- Adding a little overshoot in the leg when it goes up in the Medusa Dip scene
What could be improved:
- Consistency with the snake thickness could be better in the Medusa Dip scene
- The snakes could potentially have more movement in the panning scene
My roughs for this project are now done, all that's left is for me to clean up one of Prathik's roughs and my role for this project will be finished.
Dance Animation
One of the things Jenny wanted was a visual representation of stars at the beginning of the animation, so I thought it would look good if they trailed light after being plucked from the sky and returned to the sky after the dancer fell:
I also tweaked the effect I did previously so there was more build up and a bit more detail with particles fading away and I feel it looks a lot better now. I put a note over one of the frames that will need to be extended otherwise the timing is a little too fast for the effect to work.
There was a scene where Jenny asked to make it look like the dancer disappears dramatically, giving Thanos from Avengers Infinity Wars as an example. At some point I realised I wasn't sure which frame to start from when animating on twos so I just animated on ones to let the cleanup animator decide which frame to use. As a result I think it actually looks too fast but when I doubled up the frames, the timing worked better so this is something I'll bring up with Jenny to see if the music would still match with the end frames doubled up. The segment on ones look like this:
I had a surprising amount of difficulty with the wing segment, I ended up with three different versions of wings and showed them to Jenny, who agreed with me that the the third option looked the best while the other two were "too pointy".
I continued with the third option and added some feathers that disappear. The original timing of the video had to be tweaked for it to work so I marked out which frames had to be held for different times as well as a couple of frames that would manually need tweening.
What worked well:
- Altering timing and tweening of frames to fit the effects better in the disappearing and wings effects
- Using reference to get the wing shape and anatomy right
What could be improved:
- The frames where the dancer disappears completely could last longer but this might affect the syncing of the music more than it needs to be
- A segment of the frames from the dramatic disappearance scene will be timed better if the frames are doubled up
The next step will be to check over the roughs with Jenny to see if anything needs correcting, otherwise my role in this project is complete.
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