One of my tasks from Michaela for the week was to add colour to the animation test of the recycling logo to the phone. But I thought it would be more useful to show the colours in the real version similar to the animatic. I do think this version will be longer than the first, but a lot more fun and unique. HOWEVER I think it will need more room and we may need to zoom this out more.
Version 2
WWW - Nice curve motion, I think. Each blob has a clear path.
EBI - Some of the paths in the sketch layer didn't make too much sense, so that was fixed in the line work (I need to make my sketch layers clear for the other team if I'm going to be the sketch layer person). The blobs don't follow the movement of the arrow and just randomly jut out. Too fast. The blobs are a little too spiky for the aesthetic of Giffgaff
Version 3
WWW - Timing is a little better and it follows the arrows. Still got a good curve. Depth! Scale! What Michaela wanted to see more of
EBI - No squash and stretch, looks too uniform. Looks too clumped together and very clearly copy and pasted two more times. make it burst in multiple directions
Version 4
Process
For the final attempt, I decided to colour coordinate my arrows so that I knew which set of blobs would end up where, knowing that in Harmony you can just select and change the line colours to black to match the rest. This helped me remove overlaps/erase lines during overlaps. It also helped me figure out which blobs would be the best ones to form the phone. It made it a lot clearer when trying to make the animation slightly less copy and pasted, as I knew which areas of the canvas had gaps that needed filling with blobs and where I wanted things to end up.
WWW - It looks like the animatic! I'm very glad I could get that motion and make the heart and face end up where they were planned. The speed of the burst is good. The blobs squash and stretch but don't turn pointy so they suit the aesthetic. i like my personal choice to end with fewer blobs in the background that will need to spin in the next part, but I can't help but feel they're going in an anticlockwise direction to the way they need to move next, so it may not be smooth... Unless I find a way to spin them in he next one.
EBI - I think the blobs can get a little confusing so the arcs and paths aren't totally clear. All the blobs get quite large, and I think the way things are laid out in the Harmony desktop, it looks like it will all be smaller when you export it in frame. So I think everything could be shrunk a little. The blobs are a little faster, they gain a lot of speed and don't really slow down, but I feel like it works and this was quite a long shot that needed to be condensed down in to the now even shorter script. So even this may be too long.
This is the final part of this test shot that I did. Mackenzie checked it over and cleaned it up and also added the colour for me, which was the main reason we did the test.
I'm very grateful that they helped me, as I spent a lot of time failing and restarting. I feel like this was one of the hardest out of all the shots to start with, especially when I am not too confident at sketch layers and I need to do the rest. So it definitely placed a lot of self doubt and a low mood. So I'm glad I got some time to take control of the blogging and 502 and to relax a little bit for a day.
No comments:
Post a Comment