Second term - Production

 Title scene - more slower fade in and cloud movements are slower too.

This will be the second scene, girl sketching the flowers. I think her hand needs to be more flexible (like fingers stretching while drawing)

Expression with colour

With colours.

Head turn-around with colour and layout

I have added hair movement, walking movement (going up and down) and background (it will be moving with the character) to see if it works with the character design.

I still need to work on the timings of up-down movement but other than that I think it's working...?

Head-turn practise

This scene comes before she discovers the butterfly, when she is exploring the forest. So she will be looking up, look at the side and possibly come back to the front to find the butterfly.

I want this scene to be nice and slow, at the moment I think her head moves too quickly so I will need to work on the timings.

Expression

 Practice of girl's expression, today I have tried her surprise-smile.

This scene is the part when she finds the butterfly while she was exploring the forest. So this scene is mainly concentrated on her face movement, to keep everything simple her body and head won't move. (Maybe hair?)

Hand animating practise

Here is the practise animation of Hand movement. I think this is going to be one of the hardest scene (even though this scene is like a second long...). Hands are so hard to draw and get the right proportion. I may need to re-think about my character's hand design.

Butterfly again...

Butterfly with colour.

I have also tried the glitter effect on the butterfly. For the glitter I will stich with just white colour to keep things simple, probably add more glitter on the actual one .

Butterfly again

After hearing very helpful advice from my tutor I have edited the butterfly's wing shape and worked out how butterfly moves.
I have drawn a guideline to show how butterfly does not fly in the straight line.

I think it looks much better than my previous one!

Animating butterflies are harder than I thought it would be.

Butterfly Practise

Another Butterfly practise. Maybe too bouncy?

Walk cycle development

Added arms and fixed the legs.

Glitter 2

Added more glitters to make it more 'magical'. This is going to be one of the most fun, but time consuming part to animate.
For this I did animate individual glitters in a separate layer but I guess I can duplicate the layers and re-position it to cut some processing time.

Fairy animation development

I have developed the previous fairy animation. I couldn't work out the wings on the previous one so I have developed for this one. (Draft)

Glitter animation practise

On the butterfly scene I wanted to add a glitter effect around the butterfly to show that this butterfly is not an ordinary butterfly, it's an extraordinary butterfly. I want it to be glittery and shiny.

This is the test of the glitter effect. I think it will work with more glitter, but this is really time consuming... so I may need to think of an alternative ways.

Fairy Animation practise

I tried animating fairy's wings today.
In the film fairy won't move much apart from her wings, her body stay sitting down.

I am going to make a slight change on her wings, instead of Swallowtail Butterfly I will change the design based on Panchala Ganesa (Tailless Bushblue), which is a blue butterfly with simple wing shape.

The reason for this is to simplify the animating time, also the colour blue would stand out really well with the red mushroom.

Animation Practise - Hair Movement

Another development of Hair movement.

Character head-turn (draft)

A quick turn-around of my character.

Hair movement

I have tried an experiment of my character's hair movement. It would look like this with the wind.

Walk Cycle

(Ignore the faded lines!!)

I have worked on Walk cycle today. No arms, still a bit jumpy.

Research - Butterfly Wing movement

I wanted to do a research of the butterfly's wing movement. Since I have never animated butterfly before I was interested to see their movement in show motion.

Butterfly wings are different to bird wings, Butterfly wings are fragile, almost like a tissue paper. Their movement is very fragile as well.

To animate their movement smoothly I will need to practise a lot of their movements as I want their movement to be as smooth as possible in my final film.

A quick practise of their movement from 45° angle.