Animated Exeter: The Animatic

OK, this Exeter project is taking up all of my time. Ben completed the storyboard and I was able to scan it in on Saturday while I was at work, ready to start putting it together as an animatic this week. We have spent every day working on this now, which wouldn’t be such a bad thing if it wasn’t for the fact that we have completely abandoned Will on the pitch project! Hopefully once this is finished there will be time to fix that! In the meantime, I have been having a go at using 3D space in After Effect, to give the animatic more depth and movement. The part where we pan in through the clock face and past the cogs into the interior of the clock now works quite nicely, even though it flies past and I doubt anyone will notice the effort that went it! I guess that’s the whole point really: if it’s done well, no one really sees it because they are too busy watching the story! Ben’s little duck creatures inside the clock were much more work than they should have been! And although I mocked up a spinning floor which I think Ben quite liked, it wasn’t as good as it could have been because I was just exhausted by that point (and the end was finally in sight!)



Mike has been working on some sound, but it’s been tricky for him because I’ve spent longer on the animatic, which means he’s had less time to prepare it. I suppose at the end of the day it is only the animatic, but there is a real sense of competition in the group now and I am torn; part of me wants to win the pitch, the other part really hopes we don’t because then we have to make the thing!! Either way, I want to do the best job I can because despite its sometimes-tedious nature, I actually just really enjoy working on this. It’s tricky sometimes not to be too much of a perfectionist and just let it go...