Process and Production: 13th - 16th March 2017

As I was running out of time to finish my animation, this was an incredibly intense week. I had all the shots of the woman yet to do. I first went through with the audio for each remaining shot and set up the documents with timing labels and sketches of the keyposes. I did this so that if I were to run out of time I would still have something to show of the motion. These shots are the most important to keep the story going so I focused on them. I created the linework for these shots but I only worked on making the motion smooth enough to understand, if I then had time I could go back and smooth these out. 

The hardest shot left to do was the shot of the woman coming out of the toilets. This required a lot more time and is something that I wasn't very well prepared for. I originally envisioned this shot as being a full body shot, but due to the time restraints, I instead made it a mid shot to save on leg animation. This was even trickier because of the fact that she was moving angles while walking. I decided to create the multiple angles of her body inside a symbol and then I could animate that from the outside just bobbing up and down. This way, when I was drawing her, I didn't have to worry about how she was walking, just about how the proportions worked through the angles. It is a shame that I didn't have time to animate this shot as I wanted to since I feel that the motion of this walk is quite dull and static because it is using more tweens. In hindsight, I shouldn't have left this shot so late since it was one of the most complex, and it has suffered because of this. 

I was happy with my use of 3D in this shot for the door opening. This was done in Adobe Animate with the 3D rotation tool which is something that I knew was there but had never actually used it. I was originally attempting to open the door using After Effects but was struggling to get the perspective of the door correct with the door frame. This was much easier and more manageable using the 3D tool in Animate.

So while I didn't have the time to smooth out each of these shots with inbetweens, I am glad that I managed to get them all done to a level that still conveys the ideas and motion. The issue is that these contrast with the smooth shots of the man in quite an unappealing way.