Animation research/inspiration

Some more inspiration for animation <3

Ellie's Monster line test

This is an incomplete line test of Ellie's Monster climbing out of the paper:

I took much of my inspiration from the Gobelins animation:

Nuit Blanche





And Daniel Greaves' Manipulation:

So after the Peer Review it was discussed that the extra additions that the kids add to the kids would appear to be drawn on.

I found a tutorial on Video Co-pilot which talked me through how to unveil lines using a kind of mask which follows the original image line. This way I could create the idea that the image was being created as the kids were thinking it; mirroring the concept of the features being drawn on as the kids compete with each other.

Of course only using the 2D character images we have, the test looks a bit flat. A test with a 3D rendered image would be more useful. I also need to find some PS brushes that have a more crayon-like appearance.

Monster Vision continued

Vision tests for Ellie's Monster:

Since Ellie's Monster has six heads, the screen was split into the vision of of those six heads. I wanted to do test it in a really stylized exaggerated way. So I created the basic division layer and used a series of masks to keep each layer within its section and simply keyed movement in the layers.

Nikki said she felt come blinks were needed again to highlight that the audience are seeing this through the monster's eyes.

I did a simple fade to black kind of thing really quickly but ..it just didn't look clear enough...

Monster Vision

For the animatic, Nikki asked me to have a wee look at the monster vision ideas. Sam's Monster's vision was actually proving to be a VERY difficult task to pull off.



As Sam's monster is mainly rocky textures I tried to have some dusty textures around his eyes to explain to the audience that it is Sam's Monster's vision. However I felt it was too distracting and boring.




In this test, as Sam's Monsters eyes have an orange glow, I thought I'd add the orangy/yellow tint to the vision. I also gave the vision a watery movement to try to bring some life to the scene. But it just didn't really seem to work.

Of course these are only the first two tests. More practice and research are undoubtedly needed for this section if we continue with it in the film.