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This is my Experimenting reel this was hard to keep under 3 minutes I have to make the pictures quite short and couldn't put in all of the animation I had to cut them down slightly and get them to run off of each other. I am happy with it as it shows all of the work that went into each part the armatures, the set and the actual animating.

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10/01/2019- Weekly Summary

Collaborative Pre- Production

This week I put all of the design documents I did into a PDF document ready to hand in and I put my parts of the animatic together to also put in the personal file which I will also hand in. This part of the project is finally finished.

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10/01/2019- Weekly Summary

Personal Showcase

This week I drew out a few different backgrounds one with pinky clouds but it didn’t look right so I had a traditional sky and I make the layer with the clouds longer so I could animate them moving to give the animation more of an effect. I did the same with heavy clouds that will be under her when she is hanging on the branch and I will animate those moving slightly so the background doesn’t look as static. I was able to edit all of the different scene making sure to have the background in place and have masked out anything that should be in the scene that took a long time. I did darken a few scenes a well in the cave to make it clear it in the clave. Once I had finished the animation I edited the animatic, added in the new scene and sorted out all of my timing issues. After putting the animation in the animatic I added in all of my sounds to both my animation and the animatic so then all of the sound was clear and I am happy with the sounds I recored they work well and it think it looks good. I could have done some more tunes on instruments for more of an effect but I like the one I chose. I sorted out the credits and making sure the right text is in it and it looks good at the end. Finally I did my experimentation reel including my design sheets, armature making, set making, animatic and my animation. I struggled to not make it to long as there was a lot to try and fit in but I needed to keep in around the 2 minute 30 time, which I was able to do in the end.    

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This is my personal showcase the animation is in the animatic and I am happy with how it fits in also the sounds when well when finding the right ones to use that I had recorded with the help of my friend. Overall I am happy with the outcome I have learnt a lot and enjoyed most of the process.

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This is my finished animatic for my animation, I when back and added in the scene where she is hanging on to the branch after falling off the cliff and added a few other shots to show the hesitation but also concern Elm has for the girl. I also added the sounds to the animatic to I know what I am thinking in terms of sound when I put it all together.

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This is my finished animation, this has taken me a long time to edit. I had to mask out a board in the first scene which did move a lot as the character progressed. I also keyed out all of the green screen except for the end two scenes I have to mask out the cliff to avoid the green of the being effected but the keying out as well. That tok some time to figure out. For the cave scenes I made them slightly darker as I felt the scene was to bright for being inside a cave. I am really happy with how the edits went, editing isn’t my strong point so I tried really hard to get this right and make sure it was to a standard I was happy with. 

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This is my cloud effect for the final scene, I have three layers of clouds that I moved in different directions which I had to change a few times to get the movement to look good and right. I am happy with the look but I will make changes when I see it actually in the scene with the armatures.  

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This is the completed background for my animation I have the clouds moving slowly. I am happy with the look and think it will work well in the animation. I think the simplistic look will help not over power the animation and will stop it from distracting the animation itself.   

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This where the backgrounds I did, for my animation. The two colourful ones are just experiments to see if I could create a sunset like effect in the cloud. After two attempts I felt it was best to stick to something slightly more basic, also if I have the basic look I can animate the clouds moving slight so to do this I did a longer layer of clouds with I will use to create the movement. I will also do with the thicker clouds for the final scene so it has more to the whole scene.     

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14/12/2018- Weekly Summary

Collaborative Pre- Production

This week I was able to finished the grandmothers modelling sheet which was the last character sheet we needed to complete to have our whole design documents finished. It is good to have it done and not need to worry about it any more. I also started the armature for our stop motion characters getting it to be the right hight and having the wire arms separate. We are nearly finished with this project know only a few small things to do, like a test animations. I was able to complete a test animation of a pan shot it was a lot harder to do but I think with some more practice I will be able to make it better and to a good standard when it comes to animating. I am happy with my work this week but if I could do the pan again I would and I would do more than one to really get some practice.  

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14/12/2018- Weekly Summary

Personal Showcase

This week I was able to re record my animation and it went week I fixed the lighting issue so it wasn’t as bright which I am really happy I fixed. I quickly put the whole animation together before I had a meeting with my lecture to get some advice on how to improve the animation. With the advice I got for her falling I did so research into reference footage of someone filming incase I have time to animate her climbing up. When it came to doing the new re recording it took a little longer then I though so I was able to get the scene I wanted to done and it am much happier with it and I think it works much better. Finally this week I put it all together and masked out some of the green but I haven't done the background yet so I couldn't do much more with the green screen. I got some help with a timing issue I had with the dragon turning his head and we where able to make the motion look much smooth and it works better then if I had left it and I didn’t want to remove it as it gave more movement of the dragon. I am really happy with my work this week I was able to re record twice and each time it went better I felt, I am nervous about editing as its not my strong point but I will give it my best to make it look good.  

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This is all of my final scenes put together all the ones I want to use for each of the scenes. I started to keying out some of the green screen but as I haven’t done a background yet I haven’t finished keying it all out. For the dragon turning to the camera I got some help with slowing down part of it and making the scene look more natural which I am really happy with. Im glad to have all the scene finished and I am much happier with them then one I messed up.     

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This is the redo of the turn around and fall and this I really took the advice into consideration, having a drop at the step back causing her to throw herself backwards more and making the movement more fluid. After the fall I made the dragon look back at the camera which I felt worked well I need to work on the times with the look but I think it was a good addition.  

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This is the turn around I redid so then the girl isn’t blocking the dragon as he is moving in the background as well. I am a lot happier with this and I did some hand movement as well so then she doesn’t look as static in her movement. This was good advice I was given and I am glad I listened as it has made it look better.    

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Today I made a wire armature for Eve but only attached the spin and legs because the arms would have to be drilled out when it comes to making the silicone hands so it is easier to have they separate for know. I am hoping to be able to add a bit of foam to this over the christmas but only if I have time.

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I put all my clips together ready for my meeting with my lecturer. I realised I forgot to remove the picture where my armature fell so I need to take that out again later.

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Personal Showcase Edits

After talking to john about my animation we talked about how I could improve my animation. The main focus his having more movement in the turnaround and having the dragon do more instead or remaining still. We also talked about some more of the natural movement that would be good to do.