Animation is starting to be a title sequence!

Ok so Thursday we spent a whole school day working on trying to get as much as possible done. We mostly worked in photoshop, then every so often transfered all the images onto the mac to see if it worked and how well it flowed.



The first 2 hours Me and Taranpreet were creating the girl. Taranpreet drew the girl and we scanned them in to the computer and on to photoshop were we coloured them in.






The image above you can see the original image and then the coloured version. We wanted to keep the colours simple and fun, as she is young, so we went for purple and pink with a smily face on the top. We had a bit of trouble with this scene of her walking in front of the house. The first image we had ( as you can see above) we didnt have her holding the tourch, however in our story board we had a tourch shinning to we broke the continuity as a tourch just suddenly appeared. As a result we quickly drew in a tourch so it flowed. Taranpreet done two different stages of her walking, one with the left leg out, then one with the right, this so it created the effect of walking. Personally i think it looks better when this certain clip is slower so effect of the legs show.











This is a clip of one of our shots of the girl walking across and bending down to get the star. I like it as it is simple but sweet. So finially at the end of two confusing hours me and taranpreet manage to get all the complications and create a half decent scene.



While we was doing this Rebecca done a scene where the star was fixing back together. This would be the scene that follows ours. Rebecca done the background as it would be the pavement you see ( in the above picture) so again it flows and connects the scene.




The next scenes we done were just simple scenes were we can show the names and make it in to a continuity sequence. I done a scene in the girls bedroom where the star danced around and the names would appear in the radiator.















This was easy to do as Rebecca toke a photo of her window, as we are going to use her window to go out of aniamtion, so i just coloured aroud it to make it go in more with the other pictures. Rebecca also used this background for when the girl stands in fron and the star dances around.





Not forgetting what taranpreet done, she was doing the scene were the girls cries as the star has disappeared.







All these images look really well together when put onto the mac. The images are great, thanks to Taranpreet drawing! they are really cute girl which fits in perfect with the story.

So thats what we done on thursday, very long process but we got a big chunk of the animation done now. Hopefully in the next week or so we can finish the animation and just edit and maybe add a few to make it flow better. However we still need some music to go with our animation, something stary and twinkly which i think we are going to create our selves.