Day 30 - Check Up Time

Animation "Pencil" Test from Noel on Vimeo.

(25) “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? (27) Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? (34) Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:25-34

Worry = No Trust

On animation: Above is a pencil test of the first three shots for my animated short film. The sound was not included to not give away everything too soon.

What I have learned so far:

(1) Sometimes less movement is more! The eye needs a little time to read a pose, so it is okay to hold parts of a character in place for a few frames without making the shot look cheap.

(2) Animating on Two's (Double exposure of a drawing) is kinda' intimidating for some reason. It is a constant battle in my mind trying to figure out when to add more frames or let a movement continue on two's.

(3)After seeing the shots in sequence, I now know that they need to connect better, probably by making the poses more similar after each cut.

(4) I'm loving the multiplane effect in shot one. It is subtle. Can you spot it?