In week 5 I worked on my script and animated another scene, which depicts my character’s inner child. First, I tested a wireframe version with a lot of in-betweens and rendered it once with the frame blending mode and another version with frame sampling mode to see which one looks better. https://vimeo.com/449509733
Afterwards, I coloured the background and the character and did a very quick figure animation, But I wasn’t happy with the result, it didn’t contain the feeling that I wanted to portray. https://vimeo.com/449511800
In this sequence, we see the character’s inner child and I wanted him to look abstract and overly simplified with weird movements, in stark contrast with the adult character who is depicted in great detail. The inner child is not very childlike, he is the size of an adult but the way he moves is a little childish but not playful. It is basically the vision that the character has of his inner child or in other words his failure to find his inner child let alone know his wants and needs. The feeling that I want to represent in the scene is the emotional struggle that many adults face once they decide to reconnect with their inner child whom they have been disconnected from for years.
Version 1 https://vimeo.com/449512202
Version 2 https://vimeo.com/449512991
After consulting with Uyen, I realised that I also need to start thinking about the environment around my character and the set of actions he is going to take. Uyen also introduced me to a new 2D animating app called Looom which is very fun to use. I also got the following feedback from Zhongyang and Holland in regard to picking the final version for the scene which was super useful:
Moving forward I need to quickly start working on other sequences of the animation. I also have to stop working on the colouring in so much detail and need to continue experimenting with different styles of drawing.
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Published On: 21/08/2020