Next batch of Animation and brief message about plot

Hilary came in to give us crit today, and as a result we worked out between us that aside from all the animation needing to be tweaked so that each shot had more anticipation, we figured out that shot 12 was far too complicated to read well; it was supposed to show how free and unconstrained the Falcons in London are, but it comes across as a convoluted and very vague history explanation.


As I wanted to avoid that, I decided to make the following changes to Shot 12 in particular;

1. Instead of flying through multiple eras with different design choices, the Falcon flies through a modern representation of London, stylised to look like graffiti.
2. Instead of animating separate characters like a smog skull, a spitfire and a pigeon, the Londoner's design would simply be taken and re-used on monotonous actions like stamping paper or walking down a street while the bird flies past.
3. Instead of animating the backgrounds by hand, I'd draw up about 3 or 4 backgrounds and move them around in after-effects.


I should have a rough storyboard for this new shot structure done by this evening so that I can start working on animating it next week.


In the meanwhile, here are some of the last few rough shots along with some animated segments from the original idea for Shot 12 before I decided to make the changes listed above.

Shot 14

Shot 16

Shot 12: Skull

Shot 12: Spitfire

Rough Character Shots Batch 1

I took a pretty huge break over christmas, but to get myself back into the groove, I told myself I'd go through the film and do the rough character animation for each shot within the first 2 weeks back so that I could start on timing shots out properly and cleaning them up by week 3. I also wanted to test out some background animation in aftereffects towards the end of the second week back, so I'll probably upload those with the rough bird animations.

Anyway, here's the first bulk upload of shots I did this week;

Shot 1

Shot 2

Shot 3

Shot 4

Shot 7

Shot 9

Shot 18

I'm doing the rough shots as they're ordered in the film, skipping out ones I've already either started cleaning and re-timing or are ready to start being cleaned and re-timed. The only reason shot 18 is in this batch is because I got it done it before christmas and forgot to upload it.