Saturday, September 27, 2014

Character Animation 2:

For our first major project we had to do an animation that included at least three steps and followed a prompt that was given to us. I chose one where the character is to be texting and then bumps into a glass door, but I decided to make him look down at his watch which is broken. I filmed the reference to where he dramatically falls to the floor, but I decided to cut that part out to keep it simple. I had the most problem trying to make him seem like he slams into the door rather than just bumps into it. The antenna were fun to animate to create weight and emotion.

The following is my pre-pro which includes exploratory thumbnails, breakdowns and a storyboard for my project.




This is the final product: