Animatic 30

And now my animation has sound. I spent most of today listening to and editing the music aquired from my brother. Some of the music I couldn't use because it didn't suit the theme of my animation. However most of it I was able to, and I only had to make small changes like cropping sections or copying parts in order to make the music run for long enough. For the first piece of music I also lowered the tempo, so it played slower and well as making it longer.

For the emu's feet landing I cut and copied a loud guitair part from the end of the music piece and put it at the start to abruptly interupt the animation as the emu enters, and I reused that sound in a later scene when the emu is charging.

As well as adding sound, I also increased the length (and slowed down) the first two scenes, and lengthened the scene with the boy drawing - adding a few frames to the animation.

Next I worked on the girl crying out, one of the first images I added to my animation. I edited her face for more of a side view, and then did a few frames of animation - mostly just moving the hair and arm.

Girl crying out:


Animation with music:

Animatic 29

Today I finished replacing the last of the storyboard images in my animatic. The boy's side jump.

Following this I edited some of the extra bits, including the temple vein, sweat drop and sprays, mostly in the run cycles but also in scene 26. I used reference images to check on the colours and way the shadow and shine work in the sweat drop.

Then I edited the timing of scene 22 to make it slower, as it was too fast. I increased the time it took for the camera to move up the emu, and then made the cut images slightly longer and further apart. I also extended scene 2 a little, as I felt it was too short.

I finished the day by animating the boy's hand moving a little as he draws in the dust.

Temple vein:


Sweat drop:


Spray:


Boy's side jump:

Animatic 28

Today I edited my animation a bit to fix up a few bits I didn't yesterday, where a character disappeared or a scene ended before the next one began. I also replaced the storyboard images in another three scenes.

I did the boy on his hands and knees reaching for the stick, and then drawing. And the boy's face as he's eating the food. I didn't really animate much, still just trying to replace the storyboard images to get it done. But now I only have one more scene, the side view of the boy jumping. :)

Boy reaching for stick:


Boy drawing:


Boy eating:

Animatic 27

Today I worked on the only scene left that was missing an emu. I did the front angled emu chibi run cycle and the front boy's walk cycle, in the same way as I did the side runs previously. I also tried animating the background because it didn't look right being static.

Then I started working on the front view of the boy jumping.

Chibi emu front run:


Chibi boy front run:


Boy jump front:

Animatic 26

Today I animated a very simple (3 frame) climb cycle for the boy climbing up the tree - most of the work was in moving the cycle up the tree appropriately to the movement. And I also animated the full body emu standing under the tree in one of the following scenes. Lastly I drew the boy lying on the ground, with both the happy and sad face. Now that these things have been added, every scene after scene 26 no longer have any storyboard images present. I only have 6 more scenes to replace storyboard images in, before I go back to scenes to add extra details/movement.

Boy climbing tree cycle:


Emu standing under tree:


Boy laying on ground:

Animatic 25

Yesterday afternoon/last night I continued to work on my emu animation. I edited the emu snapping animation, added a transparent copy of the animation to the scene running slightly slower to give a kind of blur effect. I also edited the face so that it's eyes are closed while it's opening and closing it's mouth, for the two frames before the sad face I made the eyes look as though they're slightly opening, and edited the head of the one directly before, to soften the transition to the sad face.

I also added the boy in the tree, in the scene where the emu is standing under it.

Then I added the boy's foot to the previous scene, and animated it. Then I animated the emu going towards the foot to bite it and just missing. I tried to make the head going towards the foot in slow motion and speed up as the beak closes and he narrowly escapes. It moving slow didn't give off the right feel, so I tried adding some transparent copies behind it. But I'm not sure that I've achieved the look I'm going for.

Edited emu snapping:


Boy in tree:


Kids trapped in tree scene:



Emu biting at boy's foot:

Animatic 24

Today I worked added to the petting emu scene. I added the bag with the emu chick in it around the emu's neck. Then I posed the boy to hide behind the tree.

Next I drew and animated the snapping emu head. I had to enlarge the picture of the emu head so I had to clean up the linework. Then I took all the different poses and animated it, and then smoothed it and gave it the sad face. I plan to roughen up the snacking, as it looks too neat. I'll use some ghosting to give the illusion of speed and wildness.

Emu with chick:


Boy hiding behind tree (without the tree):


Petting emu scene:


Emu head snapping:


Animatic: