Here is Something
It is my first short film that I made in animation class! So watch it and enjoy, then read this. It was a major project, pretty much most of our Quarter grade. So we took a few weeks to make it. The story was probably the easiest part for me to make, since I have experience with plot planning. In the image below, you can see the original concept. The introduction and credits had to be cut, however, because of deadlines.
And the storyboard:
Then I drew our epic anti-hero, Adrianna:
....in Photoshop:
Later, I decided to add expressions:
I didn't sketch the guards on paper first. I just drew them straight from Photoshop. "He looks like a mii." -Actual feedback I got.
Then I drew the backgrounds. There was supposed to be a lot more, as you can see in the storyboard, but *sigh* deadlines.
Then I drew our very sacred orb. I used a picture of an opal as reference. I used some Photoshop effects to make it glow. For the screenshot, I gave it a black backdrop so y'all can see.
But then *spoiler warning* dun Dun DUN...Adrianna is frightened by the bell and breaks it. The glow effect is deleted and I separate it to pieces.
For the final image, I made the title:
Yay! Now everything is done in Photoshop and I can import it into After Effects.
After this I found all the audio files. Here are the links to them:
Okay, now I can start animating. For each scene, I made a composition, and ended up having 12 scenes. As you can see, they are all lined up on the timeline. Inside each of those bars, I used what I knew to make the scene. Here is scene 6 (a.k.a. the one where her arms reach for the orb, but the bell rings):
I have the layers for both her arms, with keyframes for the movement.
I did this for every scene, in different ways. Scene 2 was a panorama, and Scene 4 was a walk cycle (Scene 3 was deleted). After every scene was made, I just lined them all up, added sound effects, and exported it.
Personally though, I feel that it was underdone, and I would like to fix it one day. Yet there is something we learned called appeal. Appeal is story based, and you can get away with bad drawing if your story is good enough. That is what I was aiming for, and I feel like I hit just that. So I guess I'm proud of my first short animation.
I have the layers for both her arms, with keyframes for the movement.
I did this for every scene, in different ways. Scene 2 was a panorama, and Scene 4 was a walk cycle (Scene 3 was deleted). After every scene was made, I just lined them all up, added sound effects, and exported it.
Personally though, I feel that it was underdone, and I would like to fix it one day. Yet there is something we learned called appeal. Appeal is story based, and you can get away with bad drawing if your story is good enough. That is what I was aiming for, and I feel like I hit just that. So I guess I'm proud of my first short animation.
