Animatic: Final Version

 I've completed my animatic! There's still some inconsistencies with the shading, and the audio could probably use another edit, but these are things that will get changed in the actual animation process anyway. This animatic will help me greatly in the animation process with understanding what motion, timing and keyframes are needed. I'm excited to use this as reference while making my film. 

Work In Progress: Animatic 2.0

Here's my current draft of my animatic. See last version here. 
Since the last version, I have rerecorded the audio, edited the timings of interactions, added more updated drawings, changed the camera angles in Scene 3, and made some other tweaks. I still need to finish updating the drawings in scenes 1 and 2, add sound effects and music, and flesh out the panic attack in Scene 5 further. However, the animatic is over a minute shorter than its previous version and it flows better than it did before. I've changed Scene 4 considerably and I feel like it's much more resolved now. I'm looking forward to working with the audio from other voice actors so that there's more variation and contrast in the voices - I'm not able to achieve much variation just using my own voice.
Once I've finished updating the drawings, I'll see if I have time to shade everything, but the animatic might be partially shaded, partially lineart. This is fine though, as the shading was largely an exercise to see how characters interact with backgrounds, and give me some insight into creating the backgrounds themselves. 

Animatic 2.0 (20/03/2022 Version)

(Here's a playlist version of each scene as invidual videos)

Animatic 2.0 (7/03/2022)

 Here's an in-progress look at my animatic with the shaded backgrounds I've been creating, with edited script and timing. 
I've added some lines to the script and experimented with shading the shots in the to get a sense of how they will look when animated. 

Progress: Shaded Shots for Animatic

For my animatic 2.0 I have created some greyscale shaded environments with characters in them to get a sense of the scale, shape language and tone of each shot in my film. So far I have all of Scenes 2 and 3 completed, and backgrounds for Scene 4.  

 

Experimentation: Developing my animatic

In developing my animatic, I am using reference images to ensure that the perspective on my environments is geometrically correct, and that object interact with each other in a logical way. Through this process I am learning about perspective and scale. 

I'm currently working on Shot 2 of Scene 2 of my film, showing a view of the classroom. Here's my progression from initial sketches to my final animatic version. 

Storyboard sketch

Storyboard

Animatic 1.0

3D environment using an app

Animatic 2.0

References:

 3D environment from Floor Plan Creator app on Android

Chair reference image from https://vintage-industrial-furniture.co.uk/en/shop/vintageindustrialseating/vintagechairs/item/oldschoolchairs/. 

Reflection: Creating an Animatic

 I've completed my first draft of my animatic for Together. This is my first time creating an animatic, so I've learned a lot through the process. Referring back to the storyboard and script helped a lot; this enabled me to visualise what actions and moods each shot would need to convey. In a conversation with my supervisor early on, we talked about how having all of these elements would mean that creating the animation is just a series of recreating and honing, rather than attempting to create something from scratch. Through this process I've definitely found that to be true, and I think this animatic will be hugely beneficial during pre-production in the next trimester.