My final animation with the Singing In The Rain Track coming on and ending only when the character comes to life.

Here is my final animation with sound, I have done two final pieces with sound on them as I couldn't decide which one I liked best. This one is with sound effects and the singing in the rain track all the way through it from start till end, my other final piece which I will be posting shortly starts with sound effects and the singing in the rain track comes on and finishes only when my character comes to life. So here they are hope you enjoy!!

Here is my final animation, with rain added to it. I have not added sound to it yet which I will be posting shortly as the final finished piece with credits at the end.

I have made the rain drop and splashes which I will use in my animation in Photoshop here is the original ones I done and I have just duplicated them in aftereffects to create all the rain.

This is my finished animation and what it will look like, although it has not yet had rain added to it, I have added a shadow to my character so it looks like he is landing on the floor instead of the illusion of him floating, also I have added the ending on with the people starting to walk past in the background again and cars driving past.

Following the previous post about the puddle not looking right, this animation test shows the puddle at the front now in the same shape and growing gradually through the film, I think this looks far better than the puddle changing shape. I have also added where the puddle gets splashed on the sign at the end and the water drips down the sign.

I have added a puddle on the front street in this one, however iI didn't really like how it changed to different shapes as it grew as iI think it looked a bit stupid, so I changed the puddle to the same shape and made it grow. This test shows the puddle changing to different shapes which I didn't like.

Here is the start credit page which I have made for my animation, I created this in photoshop then brought it into aftereffects and animated the sparkles just to make it look more interesting.

I have added the credit start page as shown above to this animation, also I have added smoke to the car as it drives past.

In this animation I have added the car which drives past at the end.

On this animation it has got the car driving past at the end slowed down slightly as I thought it was to fast in the previous tests I done, I have also animated the road cone knocking over as the man swirls around the lamppost.

I will take a random few of my renders to show you the progress of my animation, this first one is off an added part to the character dancing.

Here I have added this animation to show the next part of the man dancing and swirling around the lamppost.

I decided after looking at my animation and talking to one of the tutors about it so far that I didn't like the way my silhouette turned into my character after all the work I have done with him as well!!! So I have decided instead to use the silhouette as my character with the eyes. I had already drawn another eight seconds of animation of the work man character doing his dance and then I had to start the whole animation drawings again with just my silhouette. As I decided this quite late on in the course I have also shortened the dance a bit so that I would have enough time to get it finished and not have to rush through it.

This stage in my animation shows the changes which I have done with my character not been a work man any longer but a silhouette instead, also of him jumping in the air. I have also shortened the part when he opens his eyes to look around as when my tutor seen it he advised that it was too long and would get boring very quickly, so I changed this to just the left eye opening looking around quickly and the same with the right, but left them both opening together out.

In this stage of my animation I have added a bit extra to when the silhouette turns into my character. I wanted him to have a bit of a beer belly like a lot of work men have!!! So because the silhouette obviously does not when my character changes he is breathing in and when he stands up his belly flops out. He also just has another quick look around and nods his head for the singing in the rain track to start.

In this one I have the silhouette come out of the sign and magically turn into my character, I don't like the way he changes into my character and will change this later to a puff of smoke or to stars glittering a bit like on my animatic.

This is the first stage for my final animation I will post them on in stages of my progression, this one shows the start with the people and cars driving past, also the silhouette in the sign opening his eyes to make sure there is no one about.

Ruth also asked me if I would do some glass textures for her, so above shows the different glass textures I made for her. The very bottom one is off a test really, I started doing it to get a glass effect and didn't really like it so started on the one above and decided I liked that one better so used that for the final texture design for Ruth.

The second bottom texture which I made and liked is one of three stages, this one, the first one been clean and unbroken so Ruth can edited as she wishes with different dirt and cracks etc. The next one I done is of the glass with dirt on it unbroken, again Ruth can edit this if she wishes to have different kinds of dirt in different places, the top one has dirt and cracks on it and Ruth can use this direct as a texture. She has decided to use the top one with cracks on her piece and also to use the clean and dirty ones and edited them to her likings and also so all the windows don't look the same with the same cracks and dirt.

As part of our final coarse we had to do some work on another persons project. My friend Ruth Brewer is doing her project as a matt painting of a destroyed city, she asked me to do some textures for her so for my part on other work this is what I done. The above image is off a mud texture I have done for Ruth's city, she is going to use this in her piece on the ground tiled with patches of grass added on top of it.

Above the mud texture is an image of a destroyed building in which I also made for Ruth's matt painting. As she wanted her city to be destroyed I have made this building in Photoshop looking destroyed and dirty, with references to a picture Ruth found on the Internet in the style in which she liked. She is also going to use this in her final piece by adding it to planes and putting it in the background.