For my first driving scene, I wanted to create it from the perspective of the drunk driver, so I have decided to use the dashboard and front window as the audience's perspective as well. I made sure the interior of the car matched the outer appearance, colour and detail wise, so that the audience knows that he is inside of the car!
To create the illusion of the character actually driving, I made sure to make the layers 3D and animate the background! I had to play around with the timing so that it wasn't too fast and artificial looking, so it did take me a while to get to grips with getting it to feel right.
I used this video recording I took of my dad driving on the motorway to get a gist of the speed and general movement of the road so that I had something to refer back to. Looking back, I found this to be extremely useful!
My first attempt looked fine, but it was too slow and just looked like the background was zooming in and not actually a road being driven on. However it gave me an insight into what to change, for example, perhaps adding bumps and motion to the path so that it looks as if the road isn't smooth just like in real life. I also felt like moving the wheel and animating hands would greatly improve the scene.
Therefore this is what I tried to do next. I didn't animate the speed first, I created some hands as .png layers as well as a wheel for the car and animated them in time with the background moving slightly as well. This was difficult in the beginning to understand which was to animate the background in correlation to the hands because they had to be rotated/placed in opposite directions, but I think I worked out how to illustrate the concept.
This is the same scene but with the wheel rotated as well which greatly improves the feel of the scene moving as a POV shot of the driver. Now that I was happy with the way I understood how to animate the car moving forward, I needed to actually make the audience feel like the driver is drunk, as that is the whole point of the animation! Here, he just appears to be driving straight like normal, whereas there needs to be more bumps and swerves.
Like this! I am much more pleased with this outcome as it feels as though the driver is more sporadic and reckless! This was my aim for the scene, as it is a less obvious angle that straight on. I think I may change the background a little bit in the future, but as of now, I am happy with the path and the way it has turned out! This will be a great scene to cut to when placing it in my animatic.
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