Extended Practice: Car Turnaround

Before I started to animate my adverts, I wanted to make a car turnaround so that I would always have something to reference back to. I am not the best an envisioning certain angles, and since one of my main aims this module is to incorporate more compositions, I needed to not be afraid of doing so! One way to get rid of my fear, was to create a turnaround of a car so that whatever the composition or angle, I would always be able to animate, as I would have already drawn the car in every angle! 

I knew this was going to be challenging, so I gave myself a few days to complete it. I am on time so far with my schedule and since I knew this would really benefit me, I slotted it into my timetable. 

I began with googling over and over, all the different car angles so that I would be able to envision it in my head. I really enjoyed doing a turn around in first year, so I always went back to that when I was feeling stuck. Once I began sketching out key frames, I realised that I only really had to draw 12 frames for the 180 degree turnaround, and then I could just copy and paste those frames but flip them horizontally. This meant that my turnaround would be even and symmetrical. I began sketching really roughly with pencil, and as you can see it is very rough and barely a turnaround, but it was great at giving me an idea of where to start! 

I decided to do the turnaround very rough on paper first, and then more refined in Photoshop but just with lines. I didn't want to commit to colour just yet in case it went terribly wrong. As you can see, it is not the most even turnaround as it is quite jumpy and doesn't look centred, but that is okay! I am just creating it for my own reference and I think it will serve me justice when I come to animating. I took me a really long time to do because of all the different cars out there, and when I was Googling 'left side, right side', etc, all the cars were so different in shape. I kept it really simple, and I like the result.

I then added some colour to the turnaround! And I made the spin more even which was easier to do after a few times! I really like the outcome, and even though it is jumpy and very minimalistic, I will be able to draw all of my car designs at any angle because I have 24 of them to look back at! I know this will be really useful for me in the future, and it was also great to practice my turnaround skills from first year!