At the start of the week, I nominated myself to create and present this week's weekly. I also continued to work on the werewolf transformation shot. I really wanted to portray a sense of agony and discomfort, especially at the start of the transformation however, there were a few issues I encountered during this exercise.
Firstly, I came across the issue of timing. As I only have seventy frames (just under three seconds) in total to animate this sequence in, I feel a lot of the action looks rushed, especially the transition from him lying on the floor to getting to his knees.
Another problem I realised when I got home was that this action takes place in a small cage, so there wouldn't even be room for him to be rolling around on the floor. So, in order to overcome both these issues, I am planning on cutting the first part down so that way, I can give him more time to transform properly and also won't have to worry about the space. By the end of the week, the set should be nearing completion so this means I can start animating this scene properly, rather than just testing out the line art.
Halfway through the week, I ran into another problem as on the same night I finished the shot above, I got a migraine and had to stay home the following day, which means I couldn't continue to work on the scene like I had planned.
As the next shot shows a close up of the eye that hair is still growing around, that also restricted me as it meant I couldn't animate a complete transformation. To overcome this, once back in university, I experimented with colour to see what the hair would look like still growing.
Next, I need to animate the pants ripping off and I also need to add some eyebrows. I sent what I had so far to the group chat and they were all happy with the result.
Around about the same time, another member of the group sent a shot they were working on, as seen in the weekly PowerPoint below. I was immediately concerned with the fact they had gone off model, so I messaged them about changes they needed to make. We then continued to message back and forth and eventually decided that it would be worth making a 3D puppet of the turn-around to help them get an understanding of the character design.
I also feel this will help us later, as there is a tricky shot where the camera zooms into the cage so using the 3D model here as well may help me get a better understanding of the shot as the perspective changes.
Nearing the end of the week, I made the weekly presentation and delivered it to the class.
The feedback I received was exactly what I expected: the transformation is too fast/rushed.
So, after the presentations were over, I spoke with the director and negotiated that the scene be extended from what was originally two seconds, to eight seconds. We also talked about what the shot would consist of, so rather than one shot of the wolf's profile, like the original storyboard and animatic shows, the director has now updated the animatic to make the transformation more interesting.
After a few updates to the animatic, I now have even more time to experiment with the wolf's transformation, which will show close ups of the hands, feet, and spine morphing.
For the rest of the lesson on Friday however, I decided I needed a fresh scene to animate, so I began to key frame the shot below.
Next week I will continue to work on both this shot and some of the close ups of the transformation.
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