Applied Animation: 27th March - 2nd April 2017

This week we came back together on the Monday to review our sketches. The versions we had were generally quite similar which made it easier to decide between. The major differences between ideas were to do with shot framing and timings. A few ideas were thought about from different angles and using a different number of shots.

We went through and decided which version of each ideas we liked the most or if we should combine them to create something better. This method worked really well to be able to satisfy each of us with the different interpretations of the ideas. From this process, we decided that the ideas of the spitfire flying and the city lights flashing just weren't really working. The spitfire just seemed a little out of place and the city lights sounded like a good idea when we thought of it, but none of our sketches were anything we really liked visually. The caused us to adapt our ideas. The spitfire idea was swapped out for the idea of a volcano erupting and the lava running down the cracks into a square shape. This ties in more to an environmental idea. The city lights idea was adapted into an idea that still keeps the city theme but instead has a view from a car passenger window driving down a motorway or big bridge. Then the buildings, a train and a crane to parallax into view to create the illusion of the shape of the rectangle. We all very much prefer this idea and I am really excited for it.

We decided that we would each take 3 idents to lead more than others, but this does not mean we will be just doing them on our own. We will still be doing little bits on each ident but we will just focus more on our own 3 idents and how we split up the workflow within them. I am focusing on the ideas of the jungle, the city and space. These are the ones I want to focus on because of how each of them play with interesting uses of the camera and less character animation. We are now setting off on doing more specific research into each of our idents and their scenes.