Final Video

https://vimeo.com/195897152

This is my final animatic, I was generally happy with the overall outcome; however I do think there is big room for improvement, but I was quite limited to what I could do as I am not that familiar with After Effects. I feel as if the camera movements could have been done a lot better and made to look more natural and keep with the flow and timing of the animation, also the fade to black transitions could have been timed better.

Creating the Animatic Pt 2

I began by scanning in my original story board into Illustrator and tracing over them so I had digitally drawn versions. I did this as I thought this would be the easiest way for me to animate the images, as I would be able to draw movable parts on separate layers.

There were times where I could not animate a single section of the image because it would not fit correctly when rotated, so instead I had to draw each frame individually to make the movement look smooth.

Once I moved into after effects I was able to be more precise with animating the frames. For example, when the thumb transitions from the first position the second position there is a change of opacity (shown in picture two) so that it looks as if the thumb actually rotates, rather than flicking from one position to another. This almost has the same effect as adding a frame in-between the two frames just to make the movement smoother.

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Creating the animatic

After making a animated sequence from my frames I thought my story board could do with a bit more direction in terms of which parts of a scene would need to move, camera direction and how I could compose the scene so that it was easy to animate.

For scene 3 I would have to make a single long illustrator document and then a second document the size of my frame, so that when I imported it into after effects I could animate the long screen to look as if it was being scrolled down.

I annotated and circled areas that would need to be animated, so I knew which parts would need to been drawn on separate layers.

I also marked where I would like transitions such as fades to black in order to break up scenes, or imply time has passed.

Timeline sequencing

Before I created my final animatic I made a quick timeline sequence of my storyboard to give me an idea of how my animatic will look, and also to look at which frames will need more work in terms of animating it.