Up until today I have managed to get through all the 500 frames to a splined version for show in the class for some feedback.
The main feedback I have received is about how floaty his hands are and especially when he goes "five-thousand-dollars" and I do absolutely agree on this and when I showed it I was not pleased with the result myself. It simply needs to be more snappy and that is what I will work with as well as the gestures.
I have also decided what song I want to animate to which is, "Baby it's cold outside" where my idea is to have a duet between two characters where one is kind of teasing the other by making it appear she is trying to leave the scene.
What I like about this idea is that it gives me the chance to try and animate two characters interacting with each others as well as trying to get some acting in the scene.
I have never tried anything of the sort before and I think it will be a great challenge that will help me increase my skills as an animator.
To my big surprise however, another classmate showed an animatic in the class today with the same idea, and I don't want to take the same approach so I have given it a second thought what to do with it.
I started looking through my music archive for inspiration and ideas to what I could use to come up with a different idea. I came over 4 songs which I chose and tried developing a scenario from:
Sting - English Man in New York
Jimmy Cliff - Hakuna Matata
Stevie Wonder - Village Ghetto Land
Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely
Of these 4 choices, the last two by Stevie Wonder inspired me the most to some interesting scenes. Even though I did not start sketching for "Village Ghetto Land" I had an idea about a rich man suddenly finding himself in the ghetto and as he tries to leave, he gets dragged under the arm of a person from the area who takes him for a walk down the street to show him how bad the ghetto is with hope that the rich man will empathize with him to help everyone who is poor in the area.
I think this could be interesting but also quite sad and slow. Also I was kind of struggling coming up with some interesting choreography which is why I did not take this to the sketching/story boarding stage.
"Isn't She Lovely" is such a fun song to listen to with a lot of positive and uplifting mood and this inspired me the most. I started thinking about the idea of a woman walking passed a man in the street and he falls in love and starts following her from a distance singing and dancing in a kind of "musical style". I started sketching some storyboards and about half way through I realized "what am I doing???? This song isn't even about that, it's about a father's pride and love for his newborn daughter".
I liked the whole scene itself but it simply did not fit the song so I went back to my archive looking for more options. This time I came over the classic song by Bruce Channel "Hey Baby" and I realized this actually fits with my already planned scene. To better make the song fit the scene I changed the scene a little bit by making the guy actually follow the girl, trying to get her attention. I put the sketches along a timeline with the audio track and showed this animatic to my class for feedback on the idea:
The idea was welcomed by both the module tutor and the class so I have now booked a camera to film my reference video on the upcoming Monday.
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