Charles Test

A quick test for the shot of king charles I and his decree. Obviously it way too fast, so I am going to have to look into adding more frames to the animation of at least exposing them more to slow the piece down. Baring in mind that Sophie wants snappy animation, to keep the pace of the piece.

I have been thinking about perhaps learning to use a program called Camtasia, in order to better show my process of animation and compositing for my technical folders etc...

Just something more to look into.

Raven Hop Animation

Another Animation Test, this time for the final scene, where the ravens hop in unison to their quarters. I really like the movement in this animation, though I got incredibly confused with the crown. I think my best bet may be to complete the general hop animation, and then move on to the crown as secondary animation.

The idea is to have the crown suspend in the air when the raven meets it's peak height, and drop back down when the raven prepares for his next bounce.

Animation Tests

Here is the inked and coloured profile flight.

Although previously worried about the inks of this animation, it turns out i was threating for no reason. Yes it did look strane in some of the frames, but once the animation itself is moving, you barley notice it. I am especially proud of the fluidity of the movement. Animation is not my strength, hence why it is not my specialism, but I am quite proud of this piece.

Animation Tests

Again, i've had a practice with wing movements for the Raven, this time from a profile. It was really complicated to show the wing in the foreground as foreshortening is one of my weaknesses as an artist.

Still using block colour helps and I like the outcome, regardless of it being brief. If you are watching from the actual .mov I recommended looping the file. Now I just have to look at inking the animation. I'm worried about this as I predict the foreshortening will look strange in inks.

Animation Tests

I finally got round to inking and colouring my first animation test and god damn was it a long process. I literally took each frame into photoshop and inked with the pen tool. I then added simple flat colours to each frame. The reason for taking the animation into photoshop was that I tried inking in toon boom and the actual lines smooth themselves out too much to stay faithful to the original animation. It was very frustrating and something I have to look into correcting in the future as, going back and forth from toon boom to PS is just irritating.