Extended Practice: No Headlights Animation Production 4

At this point, I decided to change part of the storyboard. Since the other two animations resulted in a car crash/collision, I wanted to keep that theme the same and instead of switching to a scene where there are two people about to cross the road, I decided to change it into another car crash. When reflecting on my storyboard, I noticed that, even though the people about to cross the road may not see the car, they would certainly hear it and my storyboard was too flawed. However, when driving at a speed, it is harder to stop when you cannot see another car in front of you because they do not have their lights on, so I opted to go in this direction.

However, on my storyboard, the next scene was a head on shot which I have also used in the other two animations, but I like it because I get to show the car illustration off as well as the scenery. I think that this scene could perhaps be even darker, and maybe some light from the stars could be added so that it isn't one dimensional.

The next scene is a cut back to the wing mirror, but this time instead of there being nothing behind the driver, there is evidently, another vehicle coming as shown in the distance. You can tell they are coming because they have their lights on, unlike the main driver in this animation. I really like this scene, again being the angle is unique but it hints to the audience what is about to happen next.

... which is the crash scene. This was so much fun for me to do because it involved animating two cars at the same time/interact with each other which I had yet to do, and I also had to really think about secondary effects. The secondary effects I chose to animate were the van doors opening, as well as the metal plate falling of the first car's tyre. All of these layers were 3D so it was easy to imagine how to animate them, but it did take several hours of tweaking and easing in and out to get them to look slightly realistic. I like the little detail in the traffic light changing, which may look more effective if I darker the rest of the scene as a whole. I think accompanied with sound, this scene will be even better.