11 second club - Animatic + supporting materials

I drew out all my key frames for the Animatic by hand. For me, drawing on paper provides the most precision. This attitude may change in the coming years but for now I'm happy with this technique. Before showing the Animatic I would like to say that the following materials were of great help:

Character Turnarounds

These were essential for providing the necessary visual information at all angles. A great time saver for figuring out what can go where and also handy for tracing. Each key frame I drew involved tracing the head.




Dope Sheets

A very handy reference of where the sounds and words come in. It gives you a written sense of the timing. I drew rough thumbnails and action notes in the right column. Also indicated are green and red stars showing the frames on which I have drawn a key frame. The green stars show each key position of the Chicken and red for the Fox.
















Live Action reference

No need to show my Live Action video again as it is on my last 11 second club blog post. Just a note to say it came in very useful when drawing some of the key positions and thinking about the timing. I tried to exaggerate some of my acting positions in the drawings. I found myself acting bits out again to get a firm idea of whether some drawings would work or not and to get the feeling of the characters.


Animatic

So here is my Animatic. I photographed all my key frames, put them into flash and assigned them to the frames predicted beforehand on my dope sheet. It works pretty well but it will need some going over with the timing before I dive in with my final drawings.



My next move now is to re-work the timing a bit, draw over the key positions with my final characters using a Wacom tablet then if I somehow have any time left (I really hope I do); Fill in the inbetweens and hand it in before the deadline of the competion. Its an interesting combination of excitement and stress.