Lights.....Camera.....Line Tests!!
After finishing my moodboards, I've been trying to put my ideas in motion. Literally.
Over the past couple of weeks, I've made the animatic for my cheekily titled short, Schadenfreude.
Schadenfreude is the story of Old Owl and his struggle to feed the birds in his local park, which is constantly disturbed by Little Owl and her painfully oblivious playtime. When Old Owl's patience is pushed to the limit, he resorts to devious plans to get the peace and quiet he's after.
Schadenfreude animatic
These are a couple of line tests I made to familiarise myself with certain movements of my characters.
This is a pencil coloured line test of Old Owl's previous line test, I was trying to create a bit of a messy look with some of Wilko's finest colouring pencils. [The reason there is a weird page strip on the left towards the end was because I ran out of paper and had to use sheets of a failed line test I did with Little Owl, which resulted in me concealing this error rather ungracefully].
To emphasise the playfulness of my aesthetic, I experimented with making 2D puppets, which not only has quite a charming look to it but wont test my patience as much as hand drawing each frame. Although I wont the that kinetic, scruffy the pencil line test provides, I can use more interesting and intricate patterns when making my puppets. Here are a couple of puppet tests to, again, familiarise myself with making the actions and finally, a title sequence test.
After finishing my moodboards, I've been trying to put my ideas in motion. Literally.
Over the past couple of weeks, I've made the animatic for my cheekily titled short, Schadenfreude.
Schadenfreude is the story of Old Owl and his struggle to feed the birds in his local park, which is constantly disturbed by Little Owl and her painfully oblivious playtime. When Old Owl's patience is pushed to the limit, he resorts to devious plans to get the peace and quiet he's after.
Schadenfreude animatic
These are a couple of line tests I made to familiarise myself with certain movements of my characters.
This is a pencil coloured line test of Old Owl's previous line test, I was trying to create a bit of a messy look with some of Wilko's finest colouring pencils. [The reason there is a weird page strip on the left towards the end was because I ran out of paper and had to use sheets of a failed line test I did with Little Owl, which resulted in me concealing this error rather ungracefully].
To emphasise the playfulness of my aesthetic, I experimented with making 2D puppets, which not only has quite a charming look to it but wont test my patience as much as hand drawing each frame. Although I wont the that kinetic, scruffy the pencil line test provides, I can use more interesting and intricate patterns when making my puppets. Here are a couple of puppet tests to, again, familiarise myself with making the actions and finally, a title sequence test.
