2nd draft animatic.
I will post up the thumbnail sheets as soon as possible, but this animatic was made very simply from them, by photographing each thumbnail in sequence. I am surprised that, mostly, a feeling of movement is retained. I have been plagued by a nagging feeling that this camera-rotation was going to be harder than I thought.
The nature of my piece, with the camera rotation, meant that a 2nd draft animatic, bridging the gap between storyboard and full animation was necessary. A few changes have been made to the initial storyboard - the zoom into the boys eye at the beginning was removed for being too cliche. as well as the ending, where the boy turns into the bird. I feel the meaning of my piece is stated stronger, if I just show the empty corner of the room - (which unfortunately, is an omission from this draft, and will be placed eventually as the last shot ). This piece was never meant to be uplifting, more reflective - and the original close felt like an attempt to give it 'a happy ending', which it doesn't need. In terms of timing I would like to hone it more...it is a little shorter than I expected.
Early pencil test.
This piece of animation was an inspiration for my piece - in the naturalist style, and camera movement. I have been criticised, for my choice of subject matter - as if I wanted to portray smoking as 'cool', whereas in truth, for me smoking is a symbol of addiction, and loss of control - and is an intentional inclusion in my piece, for these reasons.
