Clarences Background!

This is a screen shot of my background for the animation, it isn't finished yet it still has tress a sun and a few more features to be added in yet, but this is what i have so far. All the waves are separate so they move separately more in the style of cut out animation.

Clarence In Motion!2

This is another screenshot of Clarence moving in this part he's moving his arms and claws as he walks.

Clarence In Motion!

This is a screen shot of clarence the crab moving in the animation, his eyes move along with the body as if he was moving so fast his eyes get dragged behind him. The arms move and the claws snap also, when i moved the arms i had to move them separately from the claws otherwise the animation wouldn't of worked correctly, i had to do the same thing with the eyes when i animated them, i had to move the eyes separately to to the individual eyes.

So many activities!

This is a screen shot of the beginning of my animation. 2 weeks ago was the first time i had ever used adobe after effects before. However last week i had started to finalize the animation for the crab 'Clarence'. I used him as the first character to start to try and animate on adobe after effects. And now he's pretty much complete, with a small walk cycle, blink sequences and arms and leg movement. I used the puppet tool to animate the character it was a lot simpler and quicker than i thought it would be, however i did hit a few snags when it came to saving and reopening the project.

Clarence The Crab!

This week i have focused mainly on getting used to adobe after effects, because i have never used it. However, before i did that i had to have a character to use in after effects, and i did have another 3 characters but i decided i wanted to change my crab design. So i changed my crab design first in illustrator, adding a mustache and giving him smaller legs and better looking eyes. I kept a similar colour composition. Once i had done this i got into after effects and began to animate it.

This is my finished model sheet for my character design, i changed the positioning of the writing and the fish to make more room for the actual bear poses. Because originally the bear poses were not the centre of attention so i had to make them bigger and make it more centred.

Mode Sheet Background

This is the current background i made for my model sheet. I created it on illustrator, all colour no outlines. I am not sure as of yet whether to keep this for my animation background or to change it but if i do there isnt that much i would change about it.