Then, based on my lecturer's feedback, I updated the character turn around sheets by making him dirtier, ready for the 'Art Of' book we also have to produce.
I started by searching online for tea stain textures to add an extra layer to the piece. I then fell down a hole where I looked at brushes as well as textures, including: painted wall textures, dirt textures, paper textures and different dirt brushes. I downloaded a few, tested them out and sent my favourites to the group chat to get a vote on which brush to use.
The group vote was unanimous, and we ended up going with brush no. 10.
Once decided on a brush, I updated the dynamic pose sheet too and while I was at it, I removed the pants from the wolf so that this is also ready for the 'Art Of' book.
Then, I continued with the animation. Kate brought me some shots of the background that she had animated, to make sure they worked with the 2D elements. As I'm not very confident using unfamiliar software, I stuck to what I know, and imported both her footage, and my sequence of images into Photoshop. I couldn't make the background transparent for some reason, so I had to manually do it which was time consuming. In the future, I will try using After Effects or Premiere Pro to see if these are easier to get the hang of.
I did the same method with the next shot and once we were both happy with the perspective, I exported the footage.
I moved onto the foot shot. As the Christmas break is coming up, and I won't be able to access TVPaint from home, my team and I decided it would be best if I focused on the outlines only and then someone else in the team would add colour so the work was shared a little more evenly.
Kate then brought me some of the perspective shots from inside the cage, so once I had the outline ready, we tested the shots again to make sure they worked together.
I am happy with the follow through I added to the hair on leg as it grows, but I struggled with the movement in the foot here as I wasn't sure how to make the foot grow without the proportions looking wrong. I also struggled with making the actions look painful and agonising because the beast is stood up, so I had to consider the weight, which limited the movement.
Based on the work we had so far, I updated the production plan sheet so it was ready for the weekly presentation however when Friday did come around, we skipped this week's anyway.
On Thursday morning I attended a sound booth induction. After that, I continued to work on the shot of the bird landing on the branch. I worked on this shot for several hours, and found it incredibly difficult. I saved regularly throughout this process however, when I came to move the file from the desktop to my folder, something went wrong with the updated file and I could no longer access it. This meant I lost all the work I had done that day on that particular shot.
In this time, I had key framed the second half of the wing animation, and also key framed the feet. I added in-betweens to the body, wings and feet too, and as I struggled so much doing this, I began to panic as I wasn't sure I would have time to redo this whole shot as well as the other jobs I have.
I was completely devastated and went home. So on Friday, I came into class ready to start again; determined to get it finished.
I found this attempt went a little faster than the first, and this time I saved the file to my Google Drive first before I saved to the folder, as I didn't want a repeat of the day before. I also now export whatever footage I have every time I save so that if I lose a file again, I at least have some form of the progress saved.
I then moved onto the shot where the bird looks down at the beast. I wasn't sure how far the crow was supposed to look so I consulted with the director so we were on the same page. I then messaged Joseph, asking for the shots of the sky he painted, so I could add them to the animated shot of the bird to see what they look like together.
I used the same background for the previous shot I finished. This time, I exported the footage as a .png rather than a .jpeg so I didn't have to manually remove the background from each frame.
This weekend I am visiting home which means I won't get any work done over this time. Next week, I need to rough out the shot of the wolf's back, and then key frame it and add in-betweens. If I get this finished before next weekend, I can start adding colour to the remaining shots as next weekend I go home for Christmas which means I won't be able to access the software I use in University.
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