Final animation

Over 1,000 drawings and many many hours of Photoshopping later, here is my final animation!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXp_Z3WYN_o

I'm quite pleased with the outcome, it is quite wobbly and amateur looking but I'm pleased that I managed to finish all my drawings and stick to a schedule!

Audio

As most of my time has been spent drawing and scanning i haven't really had a chance to experiment with audio. As i only have a day left and still quite a bit to do I think I am going to go with a piece of music instead of having sound effects. I am going to go for a piece of acoustic/instrumental music as I think words may distract from the visuals slightly. It needs something fairly upbeat and simple.

I have found a website called Jamendo.com which has loads of royalty free music. The tracks are free to download and can be used for commercial and non-commercial purposes so I don't have to worry about copyright issues.
http://www.jamendo.com/en

I had a little search through some of the instrumental pieces and found something which I think will work well. It is a simple guitar piece which I think is appropriate for the rhythm of my animation.  I have put all my frames together now so hopefully the audio won't need too much tweaking!

So much drawing...

I've actually managed to keep on schedule for this project hooray! Altogether i have scanned in and edited 93 pages of drawings from my sketchbook, almost there! 

First section

Here is the first 23 seconds of animation. I'm working at 10 frames per second so it's 230 frames worth. It's time consuming to say the least!

Testers

TESTERS

Refining Ideas

During my learning agreement consultation with my lecturers it was suggested that the boy character is unnecessary to the animation and that it needs to focus more on the evolution aspect. I have therefore decided to present the book on its own and to have the pages turn without the aid of a human hand. The audience will be looking down onto the book, observing the creature moving and growing on the pages. I also need to consider the use of audio, i.e. sound of pages turning, animal noises, voiceover narration? Apparently After Effects will be needed so I also need to practice more with that and see what I can do with it. I'm starting to get the hang of Premiere Pro which is good as I had never used it in my life until Tuesday. So I need to draw a new storyboard and maybe when I get the evolving creature down I could add in that beginning section if it works and if I have time.   

Tester

Today I started experimenting with Adobe Premiere Pro to get familiar with how it works and to test out the frames I have drawn so far. It took me three hours to scan it all in and then put it together and it's only 2 seconds long! Hopefully i will get quicker as the project progresses.