Yr 1 Chloe Hebert Animation Journal

  Before starting in on the actual animation, I went ahead and made some headshot turnarounds for the two owl characters. That way I can use them as reference to keep all the shots consistent with each other and the character designs.  The first scene I animated was the bit right after the older sibling pulls the younger one out from under the bell. I figured this one would be good to start with since it is a very close, intimate moment between the two with a far among of small character acting in their interaction. 

 The background art gave me a little bit of trouble. Background art is probably one of my least favorite aspects of making a short film, so I wanted to get it out of the way first so that I wouldn't have to worry about it later on. I took some of my own reference photos around the city for the bell tower setting.  I also looked at some of the background art from films such as 101 Dalmatians and The Paperman . I tried playing around with some different color palettes, but I really didn’t like how they were going. I ended up just rendering out the sketches I had made for the animatic in black and white, and tweaked the colors with gradient maps. I imagine the final film with color, but if I run out of time or decide that I’d rather leave it in black and white I can.  

 Finalized draft above Original first draft below