Progress...

I have worked out that some of the shots needs to be edited with After effects to combine two different animations, for example, a shot with a girl chasing a butterfly would be better to animate separately because of the timing differences.

To do this, I have animated a girl and a butterfly separately with a transparent background, I will then put this two animations in aftereffect with the background so that the two animations will play in the same shot, but with a different timing. I will also do the same thing for the moving background (the scene where a girl is running)

For the overall progress... I feel that it's going in a slow pace, but definitely progressing. I will still need to animate a few more small shots, and one big shots to complete the animation. My plan is to finish animating and editing everything by the end of Easter vacation so that I will have plenty of time to pass my work to my audio production team. 

Animating progress...

Butterfly Test

Quick test on Butterfly colour. After the background has been coloured in my tutor gave me an advice to possibly change the butterfly colour as it camouflages to the background.

The top left corner is the original colour, I then coloured in the butterfly's wings in different colours to see which one would stand out more... I think yellow or Pink stands out the best.

I think I'll go for yellow butterfly instead of blue, Yellow stands out really well with the background and I think the bright colour would catch the audiences eyes.
















I have also lighten the butterfly's body colour so that it won't also camouflage with trees.