Flash! Ahh

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Rooting around

Managed to find the storyboard and brainstorm i started with, they are digital rather than hand done and traced in so they do lack a certain something.

Always leaving it till last minute.

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Yeah, the title says it all from a 5 second animation this thing has turned into like a 20 second short -.-, everything i was doing was new to me as i haven't animated animals before, let alone making them sit down from the walking posistion.

It looks ok, i'm not 100% happy with it but what can you do, i've learnt a little from the experience so next i'll know what and what not to do.

Problems :

The snow would reset when the panda was clicked (As it's a new scene it registers as a new starting point).
Because i made my panda a complete movie clip with the animations inside, timing the outs and ins were near impossible, so althought it's not a SMOOTH loop it still can be considered a loop.
Movement was hard for me as i've never done anything like this before, i found myself on all fours acting out the actions (That's how i got the sit motion) which was an..experience.

All in all i'm reasonably happy with the outcome, if i could do it again it would strictly be alot of smoothing out as although it's not horrible to watch, if it was smoother it would be alot easier to absorb.

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Finished walk cycle

Yeah this is as good as it's going to get without me dying, it turned more into a walk cycle as i couldn't figure out how to pad it and to actually make a walk would mean a complete re-hash.

Basic moodboard

This was what i did when i decided to use a panda as my walkcycle, it's very basic as i kind of knew what i wanted from the off, there wasn't much confusion when we were asked.

Butterfly/nose done before? Subconcious maybe..Who knows.

So yeah, my idea was to have the panda walking > sitting down > Butterfly flies in > Lands on his nose > He shakes it off > continues with the walk.

I was told that it had been done before? I though of any "bears" i could think of in cartoons and luckily i found the picture of this happening, i wasn't that shocked really as nowadays any idea isn't really new, but for it to be in something i used to worship as a child it's a shock it's still in my head.