About this Blog

I am an MSc Animation & Visualisation student at DJCAD in Dundee, Scotland. "Once Bitten" is the working title for my personal project and final outcome short film. The characters in my film will be 2D, animated digitally, but the environments they inhabit will be filmed in live action.

"Once Bitten" is a story about a woman who meets a wolf cub alone in the forest, the mood is light and playful and about the pair of new friends escaping their normal lives. However the mood darkens when the cub accidentally falls into a human trap and his mother catches up with him and his new companion.

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

New Rough Cut

I composited together a more up to date rough cut. It has everything i aim to have in the finalised film in it- at least in rough form, and sometimes in complete-animation-but-no-colour form. This rough cut should be close to, or bang on the final timing for the film i hope to hand in in a few weeks time- which will be helpful when preparing sound for it. It's also a good indicator of exactly where i am in production for everyone to have a nosy at :) A few people are helping me inbetween the clean keyed scenes and i have yet to start farming out scenes to colour....

Friday, July 3, 2015

Animation update!!

Ok, i've been withholding work again but here it goes:

Scene 6:

Rough roto

Rough keys

Clean Keys with charting

Scene 8:

Blocks & roto

rough Keys-pup

Scene 10:

Rough keys

Clean keys

Scene 12:

I've decided to split scene 12 into parts: the final pull back will be a part on it's own and the animation required here is Anna standing with her back turned to the camera with some wind movement through her clothes. This can then be placed in the 3D tracked shot. The beginning of the scene i will animate Anna turning on the spot the way i act out in the reference footage. she will then be placed in an empty shot which will be 3D tracked to place her. I've been having some trouble with this process because the empty shot doesn't match the reference shot, which can only be expected with a hand held camera... all i have to show atm is some rough roto to help me get my head around the beginning of the shot.

Rough roto

Scene 13:

Rough keys

Clean keys

I am preeetty behind on my personal schedule- thankfully though, Wendy has agreed to help me inbetween/ clean and colour which is great news!