At the beginning of the week, I worked on the lip sync study task. I need to add more frames to what I have so far but I will most likely do this over the Christmas break. I also continued to communicate with the rest of my team to make sure that whoever nominated themselves was prepared to deliver the weekly presentation, as well as staying on top of their work.
Then on Tuesday, I continued to work on the animation.
At first, I roughed out the general movement of the hand. Then, I refined the outline and key framed this. Finally, I added the in-betweens to give the hand a trembling effect, as I wanted to convey a sense of shock and fear.
After hitting a mental block with the hand shot, I decided to move onto the shot of the bird looking over it's shoulder. I did the same technique as above to make sure the timing was right before I refined it and added in-betweens.
Once happy, I added colour to the shot and sent this to my teammates. Next week I should hopefully add a background to this.
Once I finished this, I decided to go back and attack the shot of the hand again. By this point I received the updated animatic and the shot of the hand is from a different perspective however, as I had already animated the main movements and my director didn't raise any issues at this point and said they liked the trembling effect, I decided to continue with this original perspective and went on to add the hair and nails.
Then, I added colour to the shot. I feel this looks better than the first werewolf transformation I attempted as the closer up the camera is to the body, the more detail I can add to the fur. I based this transformation on the dynamic pose sheet where I had already considered how the hand would look. To make the shot more dramatic, I suggested we zoom in slightly as not only will this make the shot more intense, but it will also make the hand look larger.
At the end of the week, I started animating the shot where the bird flies down and lands on the branch, as this is another shot that looks challenging and I am nervous about.
I started by roughing out the general movement. The body remains somewhat constant, while the wings and feet move quite a bit. I looked at some slowed down footage of birds landing on branches to help me.
To make sure the shot looked right as I was using a placeholder branch for my rough animation, we took a photo of the set to test that he landed correctly. For a first attempt, it was closer than I thought, so when I refine the outline, I will make sure the feet land properly on the branch.
We did this in front of a bluescreen so we can add the Joseph's sky in post. We also filmed some practice shots last week, and once we can rent out a more professional camera, we will start experimenting with them more.
Throughout this process, I have been messaging the musician and letting him know all the changes that are being made.
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