Max McMillans Narrative Workflows

Here are some more frames in production, the the pan up is the first scene of animation followed by a few quick keyframes of the tiger walking which will have a few more in-betweens within it but the shot itself isn't that long so not too many more. And the tiger jumping out at the camera is also a fully finished scene that needs to be lined and coloured.

Here is a fully coloured scene of toga wandering through the hallway, I really think that colour helps convey the her worrying look of emotion on her face it just makes her seem so much more human than just a blank sketch on a piece of paper. The vivid background looks great against the character and helps make her pop against the background.

Here are the Keyframes for toga walking down the hallway looking afraid and unaware of where she is and how she reacts with the tiger jumping out on her. We also used this as an example of how we can show the tiger in a bit more of a fantastical entrance into battling our protagonist. The scenes aren't necessarily in the correct order as toga should be holding her hands up protecting herself after the tiger is seen and then jumps out at her. But the animation is looking fluid and has a real sense of life to it.

Once we have reviewed our animatic we had a team talk on what scenes we should extend or make shorter leading us to update our storyboard, and time slots subsequently. The storyboard is much clearer with a lot less clutter and a more direct approach to showing visuals

Here is the animatic for our East of Eden animation, the timings match up perfectly with the music which is a great start. However the animatic points out what scenes need to be longer and what scenes should be much shorter with more frames which is a good starting point for working on the final animatic. 

We started out by colouring toga with simple block colours, using quick washes of water colour to give her some life through her colour. We purposely tried to stay away from green as our background will be a light green and didn't wanna have any visual issues when it came to deciphering whats happening. We then figured out a set colour palette for her, detailed below. My favourite part of toga, is her orange triangle nose, I think it really adds a sense of personality to her and gives her a unique likeness to perhaps people we know.

Here are some lined and colour versions of the tiger, the variation in line weight really gives the tiger a sense of dynamic feel as if it actually has some page presence. The colour has just been simply block coloured, whilst detailing highlights like his eyes and nose.