Week 5: And We're Animating...

Yes, I have finally reached a point where I am animating. From my point of view, difficult to believe because of some of the things that happened this weekend (stress/anger level through the roof), but it is true. The first new shots to be animated for the film are scenes six and seven which comprise the end of the file (excluding credits). It's a moderately simple sequence except for one shot - the pull back/surprise reveal near the end of the film. It is a simple thing to create a pull back that turns into a surprise reveal on a storyboard, but animating it is quite a different thing. It was tricky to pull off - matching the motion two objects was tough enough, but part of the second object refused to become transparent and that was nearly an hour of time wasted - but it finally came together. So now the blocking for these scenes is done and I just have to go back and set up the puppet pins and do some proper animating. Hopefully that won't take very long, which in a way is kind of disappointing. All that stress filled set up for just a little bit of animating. Oh well...

In the mean time enjoy the first shot that was completed for the film (scene four) by clicking on the following: I Hate Zombies Scene 4 - come back next week for more!