'Cliff' 25/04/2011

For the last few days i have been working on the final scene in the film, The storm of black ghosts in the golden city that kills the witch, and the happy ending.
The happy ending is very much still in production.

I am at 11.7 seconds and i need to get to 32 seconds.

Once that is complete i can begin work on the rest of the film

At the moment i have 2 minutes 55 to complete by my deadline the 25th of May. I'm not sure if it gets tighter than that.
I am still confident though, i will fight through until the very end.

Here are some production screenshots

The death of the witch.
First i animated a few loops of ghosts that i could place into the screen, they soar across from the side multiple times throughout.
For the witches death i frame by frame animated her body getting thinner, like her insides were disapearing, and then a wave of ghosts fly past leaving only the bones and fly off screen.

I used a running loop i'd already animated for an earlier scene and then drew a standing version. Once i'd done that i could do intbetweens connecting the loop from the new keyframe stance. So he runs and stands smoothly.

Cliff watches as the golden city turns a dark corner, the backdrop becomes a blurred red and black. I used the same background for a variety of shots in this scene, simply flipping them or making them bigger.

A character sheet of the main cast.


- Nathan Viney