PRODUCTION: Backgrounds 55, 58 & 60, and coloured shots 8, 9, 17, 18, 24

A bigger update of what I have been doing since the last post.
Here is background 55, it's when Jenny looks out of the window after she wakes up. Since she lives quite high I made sure that she'd see the roofs of most of the buildings that were close to to her house. I have left the sea light grey as Estelle is doing all the environmental animations.

After talking with Hilary about this shot we have agreed that to remove her shoes since it was clear that she was looking down. With that in mind I removed her legs and shoes and cleaned up the puddle a bit so it would look better as well as redefined the Jenny's shadow. I'm really happy with how this looks.

The last background in the story. This is where Pup appears and jumps out of the water. I have made the water grey again so that Estelle can animate the waves and water around Pup. As much as it was difficult to draw all the details of the houses, I enjoyed it. It's nice to see the whole town from a distance. It was nearly isolated but I have hidden a road of town so its not that closed off.

Below are all the coloured animation shots I have done so far. I'm slowly getting into the rhythm of colouring. Though I have to make sure to rest my hand because sometimes it starts to ache. Overall everything is looking good now so I've been mainly focusing on my dissertation.

PRODUCTION: backgrounds 5, 29, 43 & 46, 48,49, 58

Shot 5 - this is one of the moving backgrounds which is why the background is longer than normally. I have tested how long the background would have to be, in the post production process all the moving will be applied in Premiere or After Effects.

Shot 29 - this shot is when Pup looks out the window from Jenny's house. I had to keep in mind that Pup is smaller and everything in the house will be slightly higher than for Jenny. I think I managed to keep that perspective well. Also the sea is grey because it will be animated in Photoshop by Estelle so this is just a guide for her to know where the sea level should be. I'm rather happy with my progress of perspective learning.


Shots 43 & 46 - this is the second moving background. It will have Jenny running from point A to point B, the red outline is the camera size and movement. Point of background will also be used in shot 46 where Jenny begins to trip, since there isn't a change of the camera angle I felt that there wasn't any need for another background since this one worked well with animation. Before all the colouring process I have first tested out how both of the backgrounds would work with the animation.


  Here is the rough background test with finalised animation by Estelle:

 I have done the same with background shot 5 and shot 46.

Shot 48 - one the dramatic backgrounds. I can't wait to see the animated waves on the sunset. Again Estelle will animate this. I enjoyed drawing this a lot, a difference in colours and sun setting is something I looked forward to drawing this.





Shot 49 - this is a shot of when Jenny gets up from when she dripped on the rock. Unfortunately this will not be used since everyone agreed to make a wash with vague buildings as the background. I thought that Jenny would get up and move slowly towards the pier when the camera was focused on the sunset however that was not the case.

Shot 58 - Estelle wanted me to draw the scene when Jenny finds the hat at her doorstep since she felt that she needed to see a fresh view of that scene. I took some reference photos of my feet in heavy boots and a hat laying in different positions. I think that the hat position is good since its consistent with Jenny picking up the hat in the next scene and looks like it contains a shell. I still need to show this to Hilary to see what she thinks of it because the original drawing wasn't clear in what it was showing. I have started colouring one of the animations shots I did and I'm moving onto another background. I feel that there has been a lot done this week and that we're going at a good pace with this project.