Once the drunk driver is in the car, I wanted to show his face as he sets off driving, in other words his reaction to how he struggles to drive normally. This was alright enough to do, but I still needed to be consistent with showcasing his drunk driving. As you can see in the video above, the car itself, doesn't move as I wanted the camera to be as if it is on the bonnet looking in, but overall it makes the scene too stiff and as if something is 'off'.
To counteract this, I imported the previous rendered .mov into After Effects in a separate comp and added another camera into the scene, keying the position at different intervals so that it looks less structured and more like an amateur recording the scene. I really like this effect which I have seen being done before in films, but I am not sure if it will be too much when all the scenes are put together. Another thing I will be asking feedback on!
I then redid this scene with the applied textures that I had redesigned as I had truly felt proud of how this scene looked and didn't want to redo it all completely. I did reanimate the character in the windscreen in a separate composition and then rendered it and use a path to draw around the window which worked great for me beforehand. Now it matches the rest of the animated advert.
In my storyboard the next scene for me was the one where the car is simply driving along the road. I had done tests of this but again, was unhappy with it and wished to change it. I began with a completely new scene, and tried to focus on how land would look when being passed by in a car instead of completely blurring it out like I did last time. I played around with moving the car and not the background (like above), or just moving the background and not the car... but a combination in the end seemed to work best.
In the test above, I tried to let the car 'bounce' for a more realistic looking drive and did it back and forth but as you can see it does not look good at all and needed great improvements.
I therefore decided to try animating the car with the 'bounce' but not back and forth, almost stationary so that it appears as though the car is moving at the same pace as the camera. I instead moved the background but at different speeds just like in real life where the land closest to you, appears to move a lot faster than say, the mountains further back! I also made the wheels spin quite quickly to give the illusion of a lot of speed!
Then with some added head and rear lights and the placement of the 'lorries are near' sign, I think the scene looks complete. This is my favourite scene that I have made so far, it just looks so put together and well thought about which I love! I am looking forward to seeing what people think of it and if they could give me advice on how to improve it even more.
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