Unit 2.1 Advanced and Experimental 3D Computer Animation Techniques – Project 1, presentation to tutor.
Presentation Slides
The animation should last about 1-minute-long animation.
The Main and only character is a puppy, and the setting is a house garden in a rural location.
Feedback on the Presentation
The storyboard’s ending should be more clearly thought about. It was advised that I emphasise that the source of fear is something trivial, for example something banging that was blown in the wind. I should actually show it and the dogs reaction to this realisation instead of simply having the dog run away. A loud sudden noise would be frightening for a young, but an adult dog would be used to mundane things like that. I could make this humorous, the dog trips over as he is running away. I had originally intended to leave the source of the noise/fear intentionally unknown and unseen.
It was advised that I make the actions clumsy and erratic, which I found to be perfect. As long as I can find a reference, either way I feel that this would be hard to animation. Thinking back, within my animation references ‘Bolt’ and ‘The Present’, both included this type of movement in their character animations. I believed that I would be challenged by general quadruped movements, so I did not plan to make it overly complicated. Especially considering that this is the first time I am animating a quadruped. I will try to design the character movement further with this in mind. Perhaps the character could scurry around the garden before entering the doorway.