Editing and Shake

After I had finished animating I had a lot of editing to do. One of the big things I needed doing was to make the arrow move. I got Natasha to help me with this. We used shake. Natasha also created the smoke and grain falling in shake and the pigeon droping and seagull diving. Natasha was a great help and it was a very long hard day at a computer. She helped me to get out what I was wanting into my peice.
Here is a couple of sence completed in shake:

    

In this one we moved the arrow in shake. All the seagull and pigeon movement was done using stop motion before hand.

 

    

In this one we also moved the arrow in shake. We found it hard to make the end of the arrow go behind the centre part of the gage. It was all about layering, we had to make another centre part of the gage to layer on top. 

I had the edit a lot of blemish out of my work like shadows and the edge of the card, I did it all on photoshop.

Here's some before and after stills:

Before:

After:

This was done on photoshop by taking a blank frame of the sky and stretching it so there wasn't the joining line on it then dragging the original frame in making it another layer and cutting the seagull out.  

Group Work

For my group work Im doing a seven second animation for Jo's peice, this is when her character goes though the door and has turned from a 2d drawing into the stopmotion model. I had to make the model, Jo gave me the caractors turn around, which I then added a armiture to. I made the armiture out of Balsa wook and aluminuim wire, which I then shaped. I then covered in purple modeling clay. The set is just green screen as the film has a black background, we decided to get the best effect would be to be able to key my background out so Jo could add the same background as the rest of the film.

I am also inking Brons 2d frames. This consists of drawing around each frame with black pen then rubbing out the pencil lines.

I would animated Jo's section then show would I'd done to to Jo. Here is the first test and second test:

Jo like them, but she wanted the man to go react more, to freak out more. So I animated it again. Here's test number three:

This time Jo's wanted the man to have more of a run off and to freak out more, I did find it hard to visualize what Jo wanted and I was also finding it hard to animate with the model. I found that because the model was very tall, with just wire for legs he didn't like standing up on one leg, even with magnets on his feet. To over come this I had to rig him up. Here is test number four:

This time he side sets in, and freaks out, Jo like this one, but she wanted the man to be looking up when running out not looking at the floor like in this shot. So I did it again, test Five:

Jo like this one the most, so all I had to do was edit the background out and turn it black then layer the door on. During editing I found that the man didn't step out the door far enough, so when he put his arms in the air it would disappear behind the door. All I did to over come this was when the man stepped thought the door I moved him on photoshop over to the right a little more so that wouldn't happen. Heres the final shot:

I also did some 2d clean up for Jo's project. Rubbing out pencil lines and tiding up on photoshop.