Today we animated the final part to our birds scene which was only around four seconds long. Because we have become accustomed to animating this way, it didn't take us very long at all, especially as we plan thoroughly before we even begin a scene.
Due to the nature of the voice, there wasn't many words that we could choose to stress, or add emphasis on, for this particular sequence, so we focussed on mouths, eyes and then slight movement of the characters. I wanted to have some more wing movement when the female bird stutters, as well as make the two birds turn towards each other and smile, to conclude this scene as we only see them once.
I really enjoyed animating this sequence because it was quite simple and is all in the details. I think that the end does stop abruptly, so I did duplicate the last frame a few times so that it holds, before the audience sees the next character.
This is the bird scene as a whole and I am very proud of what we have achieved. I think that the bird matches the voice really well, syncing wise as well as personality wise. We tried to elevate the character more so because the voice is very timid, but we still wanted some exaggeration and movement in there. Hayley and I have worked really well as a team directing each other and really thinking about the next frame and what will look most natural, but also entertaining for our family viewers (target audience). I am also so happy to see my models really come to life, and I am proud of how I made them!
And this is the birds scene slotted into the animatic. I am glad that I added more frames to the end as this makes the transition to the newt more palpable, instead of being too blunt. I am so happy with what we have achieved so far and we are sticking to our schedule! We will now move on to the sheep scene which we sorted out mouth shapes for today!
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