Colour WIP

WIP video of all the colour sections completed for VIVA.

 

Rough Animation

Here's the roughs for the full animation.

Animatic

Here is the animatic.

Animation Tests

Here's a coloured and lined version of the flex animation. Further things I think I need to tweak in this are:

• Tail
• Head Bob
• Speed of arm flexing
• Addition of cape

WIP rendering...

Here's a WIP section of the opening. It's a long way off, as I need to make it look a lot more worn out and moss covered, but it's a start.

Opening still

This is the rough for the opening shot I did a while back, thought it'd be neat to show it here. It's a still, so it'll be pretty easy to render out and complete. 

I was trying out a technique I had seen for colour selection, and here's the initial stages. Will be painting over it to see how it looks:

Animation Tests

Just a quick test, I need to practice the tail movements. This was just a quick practice, again it needs a lot of tweaking. Especially at the fin and keeping the thickness of the tail correct!

I want to push the model, not sticking completely to the sheet I provided. It's intentional so I can be as expressive and keep the movement cartoon-y.

Here's a silly little butt wiggle from one of the scenes of my animation.

Gif quality is an issue in flash. Will be researching better ways in the future...

I need to watch out for pauses like the one in this loop. More stuff to work on, but so far I'm learning quite a bit about stretch. I want to push the boundaries!

Motion tweaks needed. I need to extend some of the movements for better over all flow, the movement on the stretch of the latter part needs to drop a frame to make it flow better. Might consider slowing the flex movement too but I think it works pretty well as is...

Movement above is perhaps a little clumsy, especially on the tail movement. I think I'm pretty happy with the main body motion so far.