Week 10

With this week came one of the most challenging parts of the animation. The onion skin tool came in very handy when creating the in-betweens for this part of the animation. I also changed the orange to the purple, so that it remained consistent with the rest of the animation. 


I worked on the in-betweens and also added the keyframes for how I wanted the effects to look. I wanted this set of effects to have a chaotic effect on them, so there was less concern with having them match the previous frame, which added them to the chaotic nature of them.
With this part of the animation I wanted to try with some more detailed effects as they get close to the camera, so with this, the effects are not just a single colour with hopefully adds to the aesthetic appeal of the shot. 


Once the in-betweens were done, the colour was added. 


WIP


The final outcome of the scene.

I am very happy with how this came out, as it quite of easily could have worked against me and looked clunky and unrealistic. This part of the animation took quite a while to complete, as there were many layers to deal with, none of with could be doubled up to save time, due to the nature of the animation. 



Seeing as the bulk of my week was spent on the previous animation, I only have a small amount of time to work on another scene, This scene involved the antagonist character rising. which did not take long to do, with the time left over, I went in and added the shading that I would otherwise do at the end. 



Unshaded Animation. 


I felt that the speed at which the character moved in this scene was too fast, so I added a few additional in-betweens to slow the animation down. I am unsure how I feel about this part of the animation. While the quality is not bad, I wonder if it will hold up when put together as part of a coherent narrative. 




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