Filipa Amaral
2D Animator
Production
3 minute film of
"Would you still love me if I were a caterpillar?"
To organize the little time we had left, I had to make sure a schedule was done to get to the finishing line.
We were eager to make it work but obviously, we could not do it alone. Team work makes the dream work. Therefore I created my own team. Also spoke with Vladimir, a post graduate who could help me specifically with some 3D backgrounds 2 hours each a week so we could try and speed up work. An amazing help nonetheless!
Had to make my personal schedule as well as my colleagues to make sure things would go smoothly... or try to at least
Work proceeded to go quite well
Below you will see solely my work in this project. Whereas my colleagues, as well as any grad assist that joins in on the project, will have their own respective buttons where you will be able to see their process.
fig.1 - Quick example of my idea of the shot
fig.2 - 3D Modeling 1st shot BY VLAD
fig.3 & fig.4 - Some visual guides
gif.1 - 1st shot with train (incomplete)
After showing our animatic to our tutor, it was referred that the timing of the animation was quite slow in some parts and fast in others. i wanted to fix it, but i knew it was time to just start animating a leave everything else that is fixable for later. While I started with the beginning of the animation (which we all know it is not the smartest move), my colleague started doing parts that interested him the most. We had a free choice in how we wanted to approach it.
I spoke with Vladimir as soon as I started my production because I was trying to be cautious as people could disappoint me, and I knew that I needed to give them time so they can do their work in their own time (without a close deadline) because I am quite sure at some point people would ghost me and leave me to deal with the stress of the timeline, because since I am the one doing most cleanups, colouring, sound and editing onto the timeline, others usually underestimate how long the process of the referred ones actually take, per shot.
I tried to not worry too much about it and used all of the time where I was not at my part-time job to organise the time I had, but eventually I realized that I was worrying too much about planning the time and less time actually producing, therefore I jumped into creating rather than organizing.
With whatever time I had, I would fix whatever animations my colleague would give me to make them worthy to be published.
fig.5 - Example by Sam for a shot
fig.6 - Fixing his example's arrangement to give it back to him
fig.7 - Animation Samuel gave me back. I fixed the face of the character with the hat
fig.8 & 9 - fixing his rough animations
As it can be seen, we both work together to try and make it work by seizing as an opportunity to make each others work better, even if it did not start very well in the beginning of a shot. We truly look at how to improve a scene piece by piece.
fig.10 - Early stage of Samuel's animation key frames
fig.11 - Early stage of Samuel's animation key frames
fig.12 - Addition of the arm, cleanup of the lines and coloring of the shot (Filipa)
A great example to show my cleanups would be the example of shot 17 where Wilfred wipes his moustache. Samuel would do the inicial movement and I would put it together and add missing pieces.
More of my work collaborations from this project
Animation and Colouring that I worked on during this animation
Final Version of the animation
Project 2023 Hand-In end of year