Wednesday, 25 February 2009


This is the car I have designed for the end of my animation, it will drive past and splash through a puddle near the end also this is colourful and fits with my other work. Above the line drawing I done and below the coloured and final image.


Above are the vehicles I have done also for the background of my animation, at the beginning and the end they will be driving past, again the bottom ones been rough drawings and the above coloured and finished. Also the same as the designs for the people I wanted to keep these simple yet effective colour wise so they would blend with the whole style of my animation.

Friday, 20 February 2009




Shown here are the characters in which I have designed to be the people walking past in the background at the beginning and at the end of my animation, below rough line drawings and above the final coloured designs. I have kept these characters basic and simple as I did not want them to stand out to much against the background, I wanted them to blend in nicely which I believe I have achieved.









These are the final drawn storyboards of my final idea for my animation, I have changed these storyboards to show how I have changed my ideas slightly. As mentioned earlier I will now start my animation with people and cars in the background and then disappearing when it starts raining. The camera will then zoom in on the men at work sign and the silhouette will come to life by opening his eyes to check around and make sure there is nobody around. He will then come out of the sign change into my character, the work man, the singing in the rain track will start and he Will do a dance in the rain.
I have also decided to change the end slightly by having a car drive past the character work area and men at work sign. There will be a puddle forming on the street on front of the work area throughout the animation and then when the car drives past at the end it will splash through the puddle onto the work area, and character. When the car has past, the character will be back in the men at work sign as a silhouette again, the rain will stop and people and cars will start to appear again.





Wednesday, 4 February 2009


These are my final background images and what they will look like on my final movie, the top one showing where the work area will be. I will be bringing this image into after affects in different layers and using debt of field to give it a 3D look and the illusion of distance and so that the cars in the background will be able to pass by the buildings.
I wanted the background to look 3D from the start and did not know how to achieve this, I was told about the debt of field tools in after effects and got help from tutors and learnt how to achieve this.