Finishing

Because i was worried with the standards of work i was recieing from other members in my group i wanted to do the editing by myself. Steve finally helped me with last minute editing and Jess and Josh did the credits.

Overall the experience had taught me to work in a group, but it also has encouraged me to work by myself for my third year film.

Helping with the Animation

When i received the Animation, it was given to me in a Quicktime (mov) video format. Steve had done the Animation in flash and had compressed all the alpha channels together an d he was away for a week due to a family event. The only way i could separate the plan backgrounds was to load the footage on Photoshop and delete the Background. Then another problem happened, the footage was important frame by frame and didnt have the right timing. So i needed to Edit the Frames, Delete the plane Backgrounds with timing and then merge the Backgrounds and Animation in Photoshop.

Here are some examples:

Here is Steves animation


Heres my edited version of the Animation with deleted frames and timing.


The final version


1st scene with the son opening the had the wrong perspective with the door opening, the door knob was flat and the characters movements were robot like.

Here is Steve's


are my improvements


Heres the Final with Lara's Background


Father appearing at the window


The final Best window shot

Long Hard Progress (Backgrounds)

Animatic (has timing issues)


I had been waiting for Backgrounds from Jess and Josh for about 2-3 weeks but still didnt receive any. Jess had told me she was working on the character design on the child and the dad. I managed to get Backgrounds from Josh but these were of poor quality. So i asked him to help Steve with the Animation (father) and ill do the layouts. Jess completed her turn around 2 weeks later, but she was willing to help me with the backgrounds. I was quite dissapointed because Jess didnt look at the animatic for the different layouts and different perspectives. I continued to develop my layouts as i was trying to edit different pieces of work but received nothing.

From the Animatic i did some Background designs based on this colour palette :













By the time i had finish these Jess had only managed to do two Backgrounds and i was very dissapointed. As she was still the Background artist we have kept her work but hopefully include my layouts with the proper perspective in the Odeon Cinemas.

After Christmas

From Storyboard 5, me and the group came up with different character designs and character's back story. Here are the designs i created: