Barista update

I've spent most of today on this. Whats changed from the last animatic you ask? Well.. I've done the happy guy again, theres something about the last happy guy that didn't look quite right. I'm happy with the happy guy now. I've also put in where the coffee machine and surface would be in the scene.



Heres the same thing just with slightly altered timing.



I hate to say it but its still not complete. These stickmen take a surprising amount of time to look right and theres a lot of tweeking to do with the vectors so that the lines are always same thickness.

Alex mentioned it'd be nice to get different thicknesses of line in the stickmen to show the weight, but I'm thinking now that it would be more efficient to use the same thickness of line for the body as this would save a lot of time - especially when it comes to animating.

Animating is all thats left to do on this shot. This will probably take another day to do - as I dedicate a day a week to this project - thats another week. I hear rumours that Alex has mentioned something about me doing post production on his project - I look forward to talking to Alex about this..

21/2/2011 - update

I spent a few more hours today on the project just trying to get the animation done. Unfortuantly, I didn't save and Animate Pro crashed so I had to redo a large chunk of the work. I treated this optimistically and re-did the bit of animation more efficiently. It helped having done it already and I used guidelines the second time round to help keep the elbows and armpits in line. I'm finally beginning to use a consistent approach to animating these stick men. The happy guy now moves into his stretched back position..



6/3/2011 - Update

I have spoken to Alex recently and he has said the only way he will get the work flow compatibility to work between our Animate Pro 1 and 2 programmes is to trace over my work. Therefore he has suggested I stop animating and leave it all to him and Alice. I will hand him the movie file from my last animatic and will be put on hold until the post production stage of his project where I have suggested I may be able to help with editing and compositing.