April 14th 


Last week, we were tasked with creating some sort of animation test or at least some sort of showcase of what we want the animation to look like. I got the JPG versions of the drawings off Alex because, sending PSD files over the internet is next to impossible due to file size. Next I imported the necessary audio and graphic files into after effects and began to work on a test animation, a very short one. As I had already researched how to make a raining effect in after effects, I implemented it into the animation. Next I began experimenting with panning around the scene, it looked horrible without a mask, even with one it is way too jarring and disconcerting for it to be implemented. So I decided to use the hold frame interpolation to hold each frame until it cut to the next aspect of the drawing. 

I am happy enough with how the animation will turn out, but I need to start thinking about how to implement a 3D aspect to the whole animation. As I said earlier, we were not able to send the original PSD files over the internet so I had to make do with the drawings without their intended layering.

Here is the video test animation, with  audio sound effects.