Final Update: Film is finally finished

Well, it's finally done. The film has been put together; all of the shots Amy and I composited have been compiled and sent to Sultan and the others, the sound has been put on and checked and everything is looking as good as it could do at this point, all things considered.

Final Film on Vimeo

I forgot to put Hilary and Chalotte's names in the credits, unfortunately, so I don't deserve any awards this year ;_;

Maybe I'll get it right in the future.

Post-Easter Update: After Effects & 3D cameras

At the end of this week, I can safely say that while I love what you can do with the 3D camera, I'm absolutely terrible at using it effectively; a lot of the shots with 3D camera movement have something that either looks jerky or out of place, the actual camera movement doesn't flow nicely at all, the audience has barely any time to see some of the backgrounds in the film, and because the animation was done without the intention of using the 3D camera, it just ended up coming off as out-of-place.

the good news is I now know not to make a mistake like this in the future and plan my projects more efficiently, but I'll be damned if I'm pleased with what I've done.

Post-Easter Break: Colouring Final

Finally finished adding all of the hat bands to each of the shots that Amy coloured, it took far longer than I was expecting it to. I also realized that the briefcases in a few of the shots were missing, so I went through and finished those off as well.

Now that all the shots are mostly finished, we can actually start on editing and compositing the shots in after effects! Amy's going to be tackling scenes 1 and 3 as those will require the least amount of work regarding background movement, while I'll be tackling scene 2, which while being the longest scene in the film, also has the wackiest camera tricks in after effects, so I have a feeling it'll take me a while to sort it out.

Good thing we have a deadline extension 'til the 20th, otherwise I'd be crying by now :^)

Post-Easter Break: Colouring 2

Almost finished with Shot 12.
At the beginning of the week I started off with just this on my plate:

Now I have all of this to add to it:

Amy's done pretty much all of the other colour work as of now, the only thing that's missing from each shot is the hat-bands that'll help the londoner do his expressions, and those should be done within the next few days anyway.

Things are looking bright so far.

Post-Easter Break: Colouring 1

It's the first week back, and I'm being pretty slow with the colouring. So far I've only managed to get one shot out of the 4 done that I need to. I'm chocking it down to laziness, so next week I'll have to pull my trousers up and muscle down harder so I can actually finish shot 12.

Here's a screencap of shot 8 coloured.

Easter Break Update: Cleanup

This has to have been the biggest faff of the entire project so far. What started out as something I thought would be nice and easy ended up being a massive pain not only due to the tedium of the task, but also due to the fact that my rough animations had been drawn absolutely terribly;

the londoner's body kept on changing size, he went completely off model in half the shots he showed up in, and 3 of the animations hadn't even been finished yet, so I couldn't finish off some of the shots.

At least I learned to be more thorough with the cleanliness of my animation process in the future so that I can avoid ruining the day of the unlucky sod who gets to cleanup my work, whether it's me or someone else.

Easter Update - Finalized Animatic and all updated shots

I decided that It'd be a better idea for me to compile all the finished shots into a finalised animatic that would be watchable as a final film, albeit a tad janky and missing one or two key pieces of animation.
The main reason behind this was to give the sound guys something solid to work with over easter.

All I need to do for them now is go through the film and compile a checklist of sounds I'll need from them.

Here are links to the final animatic as separate scenes and in full.

Scene 1 Final

Scene 2 Final

Scene 3 Final

Final Animatic

There are parts I would like to figure out in much more detail, but for the time being I'm happy with it as it is.