19-22/12/20
This was our only fully collaborative scene on the project. In others, I did go in and fix the line work. But this was the only scene where we each animated a role before I altered things.
This mostly started off with Naomi's animatic of the bottle being raised to the mouth and a rough outline of where the fire burp needs to go and how long it will last.
Using this, I started on the outlining process which took me a few days.
WWW - This was my first time using someone else's interpretation of a shot and trying to make it how they saw it. I think I did a good job replicating the attitude in the actions and the relaxed nature.
EBI - As a team, I found that I did take over the shot slightly. I added a few extra actions, mostly to make sure the shot made sense (such as adding in Lilith sitting up, so that I could aim the head down, as in the animatic the head was tilted up and the burp went down) I think I should have communicated more with my team about these alterations because the shot is one of the largest.
Another action I added in was Lilith's reaction to annoying Sandy, as this wasn't planned in the sketch layer.
I was most worried about doing the fire burp. It was one of the few actions in the whole animation that I didn't really want to do, but it was easiest in the group flow that I took it. As I drew the initial burp in my Lilith mood board using a reference of Homer - I decided to look at Matt Groening. Bender from Futurama has a different fire burp style to Homer - but I liked all the curves in this version that matched the swirls in my character designs. I also prefer the two tones of fire to the quadruple tone in the previous design. I kept the idea of the inner mouth glowing and fading with the fire.
I think I did well at this - I angled it at the diary well, and also managed to show the fire flickers and make them move with each other. I wasn't sure how to shrink the flames - I was going to make the flames go back towards the mouth, which would have gone against the flickering movements. I'm glad I checked this reference.
22-24/12/20
After spending a few days on the shot, I worked on colouring Lilith and adding shading the moment Ayesha had posted the concept art with a light reference.
27/12/20
There was a small mix up with the fire, as I was given the task of animating the fire burp, which I did along with my line work once I had Naomi's line work. But Naomi then sent me a version of the book lighting on fire after I had animated it.
I thought that her version of the book burning was a lot better than my own - but due to us both working at the same time - the burp itself ended up covering most of the flames she had made. Also the flames didn't match the shape of my book and the lightweight refused to change size.
With all these thought in mind, I decided to make Naomi's fire an overlay on top of my own burning diary by lowering the opacity. I also deleted the line work layer so that it was just the colours so we didn't have the weight issue. By doing this we stopped the burp and the fire from the diary merging in to an orange blob.
The opaque flames made it look similar to the lighting style in over shots which made Naomi's fire slightly more consistent without me needing to change the style.
What's next?:
Currently waiting on Ayesha's sketch layer for Sandy so that I can animate her in.
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