End of Semester Update

Semester Update

Project:

       

       Hello again, people of the internet! Since my last post I have been working almost non-stop on this project. I'm have been drawing frames for the majority of my time and I have been able to complete one of the first scenes in my animation. I have developed a process for my animating. First I hand draw all of the frames individually. Then I scan them onto my computer and open them in photoshop. I trace my drawing and color the frames all in photoshop. Once I have finished coloring all my frames I create a timeline and arrange them in order. I finish any animation and render the scene in aftereffects.

I came up with this animation after sketching the characters that you see on the left. I imagined that they were monster brothers who live in the forest surrounding a medieval village. The villagers think that they are evil so they are forced to hide in the forest. One day they find a human baby abandoned near their home and they take it to care for it. They must return the child to the village without being attacked by its residents in the process.

With help from my classmates I have learned how to use photoshop and aftereffects to make a 2d animation. I am going to continue working on this project next semester and hopefully finish in time to enter it into a local contest. 

You can watch the first scene of this animation here:   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zSfdKMGOb8