Revising storyboards, thinking about how to gradually allow William's character to change and showing the arc, while thinking about how to minimise workload when it comes to animating the now-quite-long animation.
Created a short sequence to slot into the story that shows a little more of william's character and shows his gradual acceptance of another's company.
William sits down on his couch and reads his newspaper.
He peers over it, curiously.
The puppy is there, and gets excited to see him.
He quickly recovers his face with the paper, indignant.
Expression eventually changes, he sighs and folds the paper.
He motions to the puppy, who gets too excited and leaps upon him.
He is shocked and slightly hurt and so quickly pushes the puppy off him, reopening the paper.
Fade out, fade in to the puppy asleep on his lap.
Thinking about the opening sequence, a sequence in the film "Requiem for a Dream" springs to mind as being helpful to think about.
The montage that hints about their drug use without actually showing it directly is helpful to think about how to minimise animation workload while still communicating the story effectively.
Animatic?
Animations?
Human model really needs done
Puppy tests - test rig - movement to make it cute - practice
how to train your dragon - human/cat relationship
Update gantt chart
Dog video - Finlay
Puppies movement, clumsy
Youtube videos
(Revise storyboards to accommodate better use of staging to minimise workload. Think about reusing animations.)
(Add in new bit of story to boards.)
Nico, a rig downloaded from creativecrash.com, is a model far more closely resembling a dragonic creature than a dog. Using a little imagination i have used this rig to practise animation for Jake the puppy. Below is a simple animation of him getting excited, as puppies often do, before realising that it's not so exciting after all. I plan to do more test animations with Nico, it is a brilliant rig and a lot of fun to experiment with.
Media Tests.
Looking at Power centres and trying to re create scenes from my animation using downloaded rigs, to try and show the power centres and emotions of the characters at the time.
William, shocked to find a dog in his house.
Playful puppy.
Agitated, checking his watch. It's too late to still be awake.
Curiously checking the hallway, no one is at the door.
Nico, a rig downloaded from creativecrash.com, is a model far more closely resembling a dragonic creature than a dog. Using a little imagination i have used this rig to practise animation for Jake the puppy. Below is a simple animation of him getting excited, as puppies often do, before realising that it's not so exciting after all. I plan to do more test animations with Nico, it is a brilliant rig and a lot of fun to experiment with.
