Schedule

I notice that I am not keeping up with schedule and with few weeks to go I thought now would be the best time to start my time limit.

24/11/2015: Finished rough animation. Finally decided to use Cinematic approach. Will design character poses in text imagery. Will try and scan in text to draw on OR create a parchment on Illustrator with old text and then characters on top. I have done something similar to this and I can edit the fonts as so. May Use Lorem Ipsum for paragraphs of words or copy text from Brothers Grimm book. Lorum Ipsum site : http://www.lipsum.com/feed/html

Previous character imagery from a few years ago:

Alice in Wonderland text Imagery. Outlined parts of the book and used a path pen to create the shape. Got the shape of Alice from Lewis Carrol book with Illustrations

I will need to create at least 5 main character poses, 1 Wolf pose, 1 goat pose and 2 character expressions. I enjoy creating expressions and changed my style as of today to make the expressions work. I used the reference of Chris Sanderson's ( Lilo & Stitch) character work for my main character and looks less robotic than before:

More expression and interesting than before. Brighter colours and appropriate size for a younger character.

I will try to reduce the opacity of the fill on the character for text to come through. If it doesn't work then I will leave the text imagery to the Wolf, Goat and background.


25/11/2015: Work on the background layers. This consists of a few trees, a log and the sky. I decided to leave out the lightening to show inside the wolf. Movement of the wolfs paw is enough as well as audio that will be added later on. Trees will sway, and the head of the wolf will move as well. Once I completed the background I will add text Imagery characters to the rough animation, keeping the key frames. A simple replace exercise of the rough concept.

28/11/2015: Have the animation completed with light effects. I will look online for free sound effects to add to the animation. I will also look for a battle like sound track similar to Kingdom Hearts games when introduced to a boss battle but with a more playful concept such as Pokemon or Mario games.

Kingdom Hearts boss battle soundtrack

29/11/2015: Have the animation completed with sound effects and hopefully a soundtrack. If I can't find a sound track I can try and make one myself on Adobe Audition