Finished! YAY

I have finally finished my animation and it looks great, so happy with it. :D https://vimeo.com/128576739

Finalising in after effects

I have decided to add zooms and camera shakes in relation to the music in after effects using a wiggle control, I thought this adds a nice dynamic feel to the animation and makes it feel more real.

Animating the Fly

I am animating the fly by importing the specific shots that involve the fly as video files into photo shop creating a new blank video layer and drawing over the top of my video frame by frame in relation to the movements of my puppet, these two layers where then attached in after effects, so that I could apply movments and zooms to the camera without having to animate both the fly layer and the puppet layer.

Syncing the Animation

I have gone onto realize that due to all my images being essentially stacked ontop of eachother that small counting errors towards the start of the animation can seriously affect the rest, I have now gone over all of my x sheet and re synced all of the frames.

Shooting the Animation

Due to certain circumstances in my life I haven't been able to start shooting as early as I had hoped, leaving me hardly enough time to be fully animate the piece. I officialy started shooting 2 months before my deadline at the start of the easter half term, I had to come in every single day for at least 5 hours of the half term and the two weeks after to get the full 1000 frames of my animation fully captured, this was a very intence time for me shooting around 50 frames a day averaging around 6 minutes per photo, towards the end when I seriously needed to have it done I did one 8 hour day where I shot 300 frames averaging around 2 minutes per photo, I really wish I hadn't done this as it does show up in the animation, the joint between jaw and face slowly looks worse and worse, oh well.
Actually shooting the animation was fairly easy and extremely fun. It was also extremely rewarding to see it slowly coming to life I am at a point now where I have the RAW animation as one final image sequence synced to the soundtrack, I now need to add in zooms fades and the illustrated fly over the top for the deadline.

Finished Xsheet

Finally finished the Xsheet, and its time to start animating. I have been taking test shots setting up my camera setting up the lights in the stop motion room in university, in there I have a light rig with studio lights but these are extremely hot and after hours animating in there it can start to melt the plastercene so I also have the air condition on.

Designing the Set

These are some photos from my set that I designed, as the story is based in a bedroom I created a door, a wardrobe and a bed from foam board and added material that bested bed sheets. I also made some hand painted posters, that show where my influences for this video came from.