Animation Production Photos

 Here's a photo I took while animating a scene in the film.

I finished animating last week and now I'm refining everything and phasing into post production.

Overall it was pretty fun to animate, with the characters being more cartoony and abstract I was able to get away with exaggerating the characters animation.

                                  These were some planning sketches I did to figure out how the characters would move.

I pretty much draw every key pose and breakdown pose before I start moving the character rig.

  I find it easier to plan the line of action and silhouette this way, and its also a much quicker way to test out a pose than by manipulating the rig.

Street test model detailing

 

This is a quick test I did on the rough background model to see how much detail was necessary.

I want to keep the background simple and stylized so it doesn't draw attention away from the characters.

 Here's the original design for comparative purposes.

For the model I've simplified this design further, and as far as colour goes I'd like to develop it further to find the right tone so it compliments the final rendering of the characters.