E4 Bird And The Berries Animation!

This is the animation i eventually created for the E4 brief. This was one of my favourite projects out of the ones we have done, simply because we had total freedom in what we did, except for it couldn't be violent, rude, or have bad language in it for television presentation. but other than that the general theme, characters, etc was all up to us. Designing the bird was the first step, well after thinking of the idea to present the E4 logo. once i had concluded on a design for the bird, i had to draw him up. i decided to animate the bird in pose to pose first and then scan the individual drawings onto the computer and put them into the animation from there. However, I hit a bump in the road when trying to get the bird images onto the computer, my original plan was to scan them in but apparently that would of been much more time consuming and not as precise as using the dragon software and photographing them in. So thats what i did, then i live traced, and live painted all the 24 birds, and then they were ready to be put onto my animation. Before i uploaded the bird onto cinema 4D though, i had to create the assets for the background, which i done all in illustrator and wasn't difficult at all. From there the animation began, the bird was already done, it was just a matter of animating a few of the props like the berries, and the eggs. The eggs were another problem i came across, i had to animate 93 eggs individually which took me about 3 hours and was insanely boring! But once they had all been animated the end result looked quite funny in my opinion. There were also some glitches with the alpha channels of the eggs but i sorted the majority of them out in the time i had. To finish all i had to do was animate the baby E4 logos and add in the sound. the E4 logos were easy enough to do, that took me about half an hour to get them all up and running. Then there was the final part, the sound! This consisted of downloaded noises from the internet, which were just ridiculous and some of which had nothing to do with the character itself, but linked in a good way all the same. I initially wanted to record my own sounds, as i preferred this being a more original way of doing it. however there was a shortage of computers at the time and i had problems transferring the sounds from one computer to another so i had to use other sounds to save time. I was more than happy with the overall final animation, however with more time it could of been a lot better.