Tricky shots

As any student would, I have left the hardest shots till last. I had to film myself slumping down in the chair for one and i'm still having problems making bill walk. But its getting there slowly. I was advised to break the shot of him slumping into 2 movements. And this appeared to work a lot better!

Girl shots

The girl is surprisingly easy to draw, with her pair body shape. So these shots were actually rather fun and easy!

Lots of key frames

Hand problems

The hands have been a huge challenge for me. I used to drawing realistic and sometimes scary hands with long fingers. So this simplistic way of drawing them has been a big change for me. But I think I finally got it down and did this typing scene. Mind you, its from the wrong angle so we don't know if we are using it yet.

More keyframing

Lots of keyframing and working out. Bill is rather tricky for me as I have never tried to draw fat characters before. His neck is lost within the fat and his shoulders are so high up. Not the mention how round he is in his body and arms. I took a look at his legs too and thought... how am I going to animate those tiny fat legs walking?

Starting to do key-framing.

I have taken the role of key - framing the animation in the final sequence. That is all of Sequence 6.

I started on a face shot to practice bills face, plus I found this one rather fun so why not. The shot it where bill transforms into his demon self. I drew the the zoomed out though, so i can get the animation right and to draw in the curves. Easy to zoom into the shot and sharpen if need be.

Jake wants to try out his effect on the animation to transform him into the black demon so I left it at this.

The next was him turning towards and away from the computer. I really wanted him to look unsure and upset.

Final character tryouts

I took it upon myself to do the expressions and poses of some of the characters. We only have the front and side views right now so this was quite the challenge. The boss was really tricky to nail, the face shape was strange for me as i never really do human faces as it is. Never mind exaggerated ones! It took me a few tries and strange looking jaws but i think i managed to capture what Jake was trying to do with the design.

Bill was very easy, round and simple. His round body should be fun to animate. Maybe I can give him some bounce.

the demon faces were only drawn from front ways on so there were also quite tricky to get right from the side, but never the less, fun to draw. Their form is going to be constantly changing like smoke. Which will be a huge challenge with lots of freedom and expression in there too!