Applied Animation: Documentary: Week Seven: 30th April - 6th May 2018

I finally finished the animatic in the first half of the week. It took me much longer than I wanted it to, but I'm happy enough with the result. Nothing is drawn well at all, but I believe it communicates the timings and content of our documentary.

I have now been left with quite a quiet patch with not much to do until Andy finishes his character designs. This could have been planned ahead better in my schedule (that we have fallen behind on anyway), to make sure everyone had something to work on at all times.

I did however, do some quick typography inserts for the animation. When each character is introduced, a short fact file will be displayed next to them. I played around with different effects in AfterEffects, looking for something of an inky feel to link with typical pirate imagery of treasure maps and black spots. I ended up using the roughen edges effects along with a mask reveal to create the desired effects and I'm really happy with the result. These can all be easily dropped in on top of the animation once it's done.