Animatic Vol. 1

 

This was meant to be my storyboard but drawn out into animate, however I got a little carried away with it and ended up with many more inbetweens than I originally planned- not necessarily a bad thing. There's some stills and weird movements from the squirrels in this, but it's supposed to just be my first draft and helps me see everything laid out and ready for me to go back over and refine. Also the pacing is super weird, I definitely need to work on that.

Using my references from Muybridge has definitely helped, and I don't find that I'm needing to have every limb of the squirrel's movement animated out because they zip around so quickly, something I confirmed with Alan this week at the tutorial. It's probably going to be okay for me to have the squireels moving very quickly and not in an incredibly detailed way because it mimics how we think of squirrels in real life. They're very dynamic and flash from one position to the next because they're so fast and obviously squirrely.