Crew Showreel!

My crew showreel!

Finally all handed in & this is my crew showreel for the 3rd Year Project Crocodile Tears!

Working on the 3rd year projects was a definite learning curve, teaching me the importance of continuity & how this can be maintained with a large group of animators.

It also illustrated the importance of a pipeline & a good producer!

Crocodile Tears - Final Shot!

This is the final shot I completed for Crocodile Tears before the final animating deadline!

I was slightly panicked as it was longer than I had anticipated for the time I had to do it... but I completed it!

In this shot as well there were also some details to change of the previous clean up as there were some continuity errors.

Crocodile Tears - Inbetweening & Clean Up!

In addition to doing clean up & colour for the third year project Crocodile Tears I also did inbetweening for some shots.

The shot above was the main shot I inbetweened which I struggled with initially as although I obviously can go from kneeling to standing I am not a crocodile... so I struggled to think of the timing etc for the shot. But forgetting that the character is a crocodile I worked on the timing by acting out the movement & working out the faster & slower details of the animation.

I also completed the clean up on this piece. 

Crocodile Tears - Deadlines...

Some of the shots I completed were finished before the deadlines, which were normally a week.

However in some cases this meant I would be given an an additional shot... this was a learning curve regarding deadlines & shot completion!

I was essentially given this shot on the monday to complete by 5pm on the following day... which led me to panic! Mainly as there were two characters involved & I had yet to clean up & colour two characters! Especially the character of Katherine which led to a lot more checking of the guidelines etc.

However it was completed on time after several solid hours of working...

Crocodile Tears - The Beginning....

The first shots I cleaned up & coloured for the third year project Crocodile Tears!

I chose to work on this animation for the crew project as it is an interesting storyline & it is a 2D project which is what I have been most interested in working in so far through the course.

My main learning curve at the initial stages of being part of the animating team was the amount of guidelines in place in order to ensure continuity. I had to ensure each stage of the clean up were exactly as demonstrated in the guidelines & the model sheets, which also illustrated to me how I would need to emulate this in the third year myself in order create the same continuity.