What Came Out of It All!

Even though I'm sure no one looks at this at all anymore, I thought it to be my duty to post the "final product" for the class. Of course, I want to go back into it and make it the animation I can be super confident and proud of, but nonetheless, BEHOLD THE OUTCOME OF 10 WEEKS OF WORK.

By the way, I'm sorry that I didn't put this up as soon as I was done with it. Once I was finished with all my classes for the quarter it was me, the couch, and sleep for almost the entire week.

Animation Scene 04 Roughs

The next scene of my animation in roughs. I just need one more and then it's on to the intense session of cleanup.

Yet another scene!

YAY! Another rough animation! ONLY TWO MORE TO GO AND then I CAN START SUPER FOCUSING ON CLEANUP

Next Scene!

This is technically Scene Two of the Seven Planned Scenes but will actually be the first Scene to start of the actual finished animation. Starting to work with the wolf and finn. AND! I actually put the background in this time!

Another Rough Animated Scene

This update is a little late, but I just wanted to put it up to keep track of my progress on here.

I still need to implement the changes that my advisor suggested, as well as animate some basic eye movements, but it's still passable.

Some Small Changes to the Animation...

Just as I was beginning to finally start on what's technically the first scene for my Animation, I realized that I never really checked to see how much in total all of the dialogue will be for it. and when I checked it was about 95 seconds total for all 7 scenes planned out. I only need at least 60 seconds of animation for this project, so I've decided to cut out the first scene entirely to and focus on the remaining scenes. It'll bring down the time to 79 seconds so I'm still well over the amount I need.

It really all comes down to me not wanting to focus on the first scene which is a TON of walking and talking at the same time, as well as the change of backgrounds and camera angles.

If I get the rest of the remaining six scenes in a finished format ahead of time, I will definitely look into animating that first scene.

Finally! The Beginnings of some ANIMATION

I finally recorded myself some audio and grouped lines into 10-15 second clips for each "scene" of the entire animation. I decided to start at the end mostly because that last section of dialogue only Tree Trunks is talking and I know the camera isn't going anywhere so plopping and resizing the background should be super easy to do once this is cleaned up. 

I first focused on moving TreeTrunk's Trunk and Ears since those would really be the only things of her body that would actively move. Afterwards I did mouth movements. In order to really get how to do the mouth shapes of Tree Trunks I'm really going to have to watch and episode with her in it. From what I recalled by memory she has pretty broad and big mouth shapes so for the most part I tried to stick with that. I did the eyes last and had to re-tweak them a few times because they were moving WAY TOO MUCH. I might have to work on them some more as well.