Extended Practice: Texting & Driving Scenes 5 & 6

The next part for me to animate was the 'moving off scene', which only lasts one or two seconds. I still wanted the scene to look good and fit in with the rest of the aesthetic, so I took my time to design it. I didn't need to rig the arms or legs this time as the scene is only one second and I only needed to keyframe the .png files, not puppet pin them. I like the outcome and even though it is short, it good to have an 'in between scene' or else the narrative would be much too jumpy.

Next it was time for me to animate the scene where the protagonist drives up to the traffic light and gets distracted by his phone. I wanted this to be in the point of view of the driver before moving back a little and showing the phone and his hands. This way, the audience can get a glimpse of the scenery and familiarise themselves with what is about to happen.

I designed the bonnet of the car this time unlike the other animation in the POV scenes because I feel like it looks more realistic for this sequence. This is what you actually see when you drive behind someone so I think it is a nice change.

I then went ahead and added some realistic lights making sure that I am not going over board as I was told this in the last crit. To make the lights more 'natural' looking, I added colours to them, both happened to be red, but they are exactly the colours in real life so make more sense than blaring white ones.

Lastly I moved the camera back a bit but made sure the scene still looked the same. This time I added the driver's hands and added some puppet pins to the left one so that I could animate him texting again! I made him pick up the phone off screen, but then make sure it is in the centre so the focus is on the phone. That way, the audience cannot either, see that the lights turn green and the car in front drives off as they are equally as distracted as the protagonist. My feedback for this scene was that the break before the protagonist drives off where he is still distracted, could last longer, so I will take this into consideration and edit it once I have some spare time! I also want to add a horn beeping here too to emphasise the distraction even further! 

These are the scenes so far put together. I have only a few more to go and then I will be done. I am almost nearing 30 seconds already which is fine, but I do still have more to go.