With the knowledge that there is no way we will be able to fully animate the final scene of our animation in time for the deadline in two weeks, I created an animatic in Photoshop for the final scene of our animation where Keith lashes our at a crowd of onlookers, in frustration with how his efforts to address the homeless situation have gone unappreciated. In the rough animatic, this scene lasted around a minute and a half, while one of the shots, the shot in which Keith rants at the crowd in one uninterrupted take, lasts around 30-40 seconds and includes a lot of lip synching. Wanting to try and communicate the crux of this scene in a way that didn't require lots of time-consuming lip synching, in time for the deadline I opted to create an animatic consisting of 40+ individual and unique poses, in order to visualize Keith anger and frustration through body language, as well as to lay the groundwork for the animation which we will finish after submission to submit to festivals.
In the rough animatic I created, the scene in which Keith rants at the crowd of passers by consisted of around 6 poses, which really lacked the energy and momentum present in the dialogue, so I opted to create 40+ individual key poses in order to emphasize a certain level of physicality to Keith rant; to show his anger and frustration visually in order to compliment the audio side of things. The result I am fairly proud of. Key frames have never been a strength of mine, but with this scene I feel I definitely hit my stride, worrying less about staying on model and more about drawing lots of unique poses for Keith. I had a lot of fun and learned a lot about key framing in the process.
Colouring Tess' shots
This week Tess also finished some of the shots from the beginning of the animation before asking me to colour them for her before I am due to composite them for the final animation early next week. She gave me the PSD files on Google Drive and I coloured them on a separate video layer, using her previous pieces of concept art as reference for the colour palette. In keeping with our newfound scrappy aesthetic I wanted the colours to boil along with the lines. For this I used a watercolour brush from the Kyle T set which I had used for my character designs, with a large brush, not worrying too much about remaining within the lines in order to keep that scrappy look. However, Tess was not happy with my colouring, feeling it was a little too messy and redid parts of the coat which I had coloured, including a tartan pattern which she applied using a mask layer. I also coloured two other shots, one in which Keith picks up a Walnut whip wrapper to inspect it and one in which he is feeding birds in a wide shot.
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