Final Animatic

The final version of my animatic, now complete with sound! I had to tweak the timing of my original a little to fit the music perfectly, but other than that it's essentially the same. Personally I think the music works beautifully with my story and really helps deliver the sense of joy, adventure, and (at the climax) epic drama I'm trying to convey. Credit for the score again goes to the awesome Stefan Rutherford, who you can also find here. If you're reading this, thank you very much!

Revised Animatic

It was suggested to me by a tutor that an extra shot would be needed in order to build suspense before actually revealing that Tizz had succeeded in catching lightning in a bottle, rather than just showing the success straight away. I really like this idea and I think it will benefit the story, so I've adding the new scene into my animatic. It's simple enough so shouldn't requie any real extra animation on my part.

First Animatic

Since this will be my first animation in colour as well as my first animation with dramatic lightning, I felt it necessary to go back to my storyboards and work out exactly how I wanted the lightning to be for each shot before I made them into an animatic. By doing this I can better convey the atmosphere and drama I want each scene to have, which in turn will help the audio designer I'm going to be working with to compose a fitting score for my film. Below you can see the individual panels of my storyboard again, this time shaded digitally in Photoshop.




















































Here is the first version of my animatic. Without any music to work to it was difficult to guess the exact timing of everything, so I had to settle for a rough estimate... but based on the opinions of my teachers and fellow students who I've asked to watch it, it seems to flow fine and the story is easy to follow. At the moment the film is about two minutes long, which I think is a decent length... Any longer and I'll never animate everything in time, and any shorter would rush things too much and elements of the story would be lost and confusing. I will re-edit the animatic once I have some rough music to work with.