Design Exchange

Marcela and I partnered up for this homework assignment. We each had our first draft storyboards and knew what our areas of difficulty were. For me, it was the ending of my film and my character design. My ending is rushed and unrefined, and my character, well, I only really made like 2 drawings of the design I've landed on. She looks pretty good from the front, in basic poses, but I have no idea how to actually animate her.

Marcela's film is, like mine, a comedic story in which a self-insert type of goofy character goes through a gross but magical bodily expulsion that represents the director's anxiety. For Marcela, it was the climax of her story that she wanted help storyboarding.

I was worried about overstepping in Marcela's project while working on this exchange because in her presentation she spoke about having a hard time finding her own style and artistic voice. I have my own ideas about what her film could look like based on her storyboards and I hope that my version of her story provides a starting point for her to go, "I don't want this moment to feel like this", "I don't feel like animating this," etc. Her story is so so funny and has a lot of potential.

I redrew her storyboard into TVPaint and created a rough animatic directly. I timed it out to 2 minutes. The creative liberties I took are:

1. repeating backgrounds where possible, so that she doesn't have to draw more backgrounds than necessary.
2. adding fades to show the passage of time.
3. re-ordering some shots.
4. my own imagining of the climax of her story.
5. the timing.