It is a thursday, another hard day of animation... i hoped.
The first half of the day i managed to draw up half of a background, the third shot in the film. The other part of the first half, i animated Para Cat Landing, turning to see the witch and then making a 'shocked expression'.
Then i got locked out of the house! (By accident)
When i finally returned to work hours later i managed to complete the third shot background and animate Para Cat appearing in that shot, he lands and then looks up.
But i came across a problem, whenever i played the video through or tried to watch the exported SWF file, the video began to lag around the point of the third shot.
I exported it as a Quicktime, hoping this problem would fix. Unfortunately doing this only made a quicktime from an SWF, maning, it was also laggy.
After various notes from RubberOnion, (Cliff's music man and a fantastic animator in his own right) I realised, for top notch quality I will have to export the film as image sequences.
I will do good blocks of the film as Scenes, this could be 3-5 scenes. And then export them seperately as image sequences, dividing them into organised files.
From there i will import the sequences into a video editing program, (After Effects or Sony Vegas), whichever is avaliable and the simplest to use.
This will bring my audio and visuals together for the final film export.
This event will not take place until 80 to 100% of the film is complete. I do not have enough time to do test runs for this, but i am hopeful.
Today i produced mostly character animation, Para Cat landing, turning and looking surprised.
Here are some shots of todays work
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I've been animating Para Cat without any facial features, meaning i can move them where ever i like afterwards. Although his ears will sometimes move, his eyes, nose and mouth are much more flexible. Meaning he can look almost anywhere without complicated animation of his head.
I thought this might be good for a desktop. Once Para is fully animated in this shot i will make him a 'graphic' and darken him (Relevent to the sunset, like previous scenes)
List of things to do on 19th
- Para Cat Acting to Dialogue
- Para Cat ZAP
- Para Cat Lip Sync
- Next background and BIG GUY character design
- Nathan Viney
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