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.

More animating

 Working on Animating...

I have decided to get rid of her hair pins as it was causing so much hassle. She looks so simple now but I feel that it's much better to animate now.

 New scenes that I've worked on this week, this scene is when she returned from the fairy pond and not knowing where she is. Still on process.

And... walk cycle is what I am struggling right now.

Pond scene finally. Getting on with animating fairy's wings first. Then probably animate the girl separately.

Added the walking movement (up and down) now I am ready to animate her arms and hair!








For scene 1, I now have a coloured background by Amelia George so I have combined my animation into the BG. Looking good so far, I will still need to colour the flowers in and waiting for the tree stump to be coloured in too.

I have started running cycle on one of the scene too, where she is chasing the butterfly. I had Hilary to help me with this since I've struggled with getting this right. So far, I have managed to get the proportion and key frames right. I will need to add more inbetweens to make it smooth.

All the Background is done!

All the background is done and outlined now, so we are ready to colour them in and put the Animation together.

Slight change on the plan, Amelia is going to colour the main background and Alison is going to colour in the fairy pond scene. 2 people working on the background instead of 1 so it should be a quick process.

For my tasks, I have been animating the scenes and colouring the characters in.
I have also had a chat with my tutor and I will be using the butterfly animation that I have used in the pre-production. I will then combine the 2 animations into After effect.

For the editing work Alex is going to help me with After effects.

So far, not too bad. I hope it will continue like this...

Very slow process

This term has been pretty hard so far because I've just not been feeling very well. But I've been doing my best to keep up with my work.

These are the GIF version of some of the scenes that I have been working on right now.