Applied Animation - Week 15

This week we started putting everything all together, i captured all the frames using dragonframe as this is much faster than scanning them in. Then using photoshop we all cleaned up the frames, removing the white colour of the page except for the characters. Then whilst Guy and Meg finished cleaning up the frames, i began compositing the frames in premiere.

Before compositing in premiere we needed to get the backgrounds finished, to a standard we were happy with. I used research from a few layout books and used inspiration to create the feel of the backgrounds. I wanted to keep the backgrounds very abstracted and minimalist as to not complicate the scene and not to take away from the focal points of the characters.

I took inspiration from flicking through the book "The Noble Approach". This book had some interesting background designs. It showed me that using maybe only two or three colours can still form a very suggestive but abstracted background, which is what we wanted.

After we scanned in the background, Guy edited them on Photoshop and added additional light/shadow, which was a huge improvement and by this point we were very pleased with the backgrounds.