Life on the Edge: Finished Animated Clip

My animated clip is finally complete! and here it is:

The animation of this clip was fairly straight-forward as my animatic was quite highly detailed - much of the remaining work simply involved redrawing the moving elements and adding colour and inbetweens to frames from my animatic.

I used Adobe Flash to draw and animate this piece, and Adobe After Effects for compositing and bringing all the elements of the animation together - a particularly useful tool in this piece of software being the motion blur tool, which can be seen in action at 0:05 and 0:15 of my animation. I feel that motion blur really helps to convey a feeling of momentum; in real life some of these actions - such as the planks flying off the bottom of the hut and the hut flying off the cliff - would happen so fast you almost wouldn't even see them... making it tricky to animate such a motion convincingly, yet with motion blur this type of motion is very straightforward to achieve.

To conclude, I'm really satisfied with this piece of work and I will hopefully return to complete the animation at a later date.