My Final Animatic

This is the final production animatic for my animation. As you can see, I have made use of the background art I posted some time ago on this blog; I feel this worked really well in terms of conveying exactly the type of atmosphere I wanted in each scene, as opposed to focusing more on the foreground, as animatics often do. I discussed why it would be beneficial to apply a greater focus than usual on the backgrounds for my animation in my blog post about environment design.

I'm really pleased with the way this animatic turned out. As I mentioned when I posted my initial animatic, timing was something I put a lot of concentration into for this piece, as my initial animatic had a somewhat rushed feel to it as a result of many shots not being on screen for long enough. With my final animatic, however, I feel the timing is spot on. 

The next step now is to look into producing some sound-effects for the animatic, before going on to fully animate a ten-to-twenty second segment of my piece. I am currently torn between two segments I want to animate: I will either animate the scene in which the bird lands on the hut, causing it to fall off the cliff; or I will animate the scene where the hut is swallowed by the whale and is blasted back to where it was. I will make a final decision on this once I have completed my sound effect work for the piece.