Final Week - Showreel Complete

I have finally finished editing and rendered my Showreel animation!
It took me while to fiddle around with the editings since I have made a few mistakes on the image sizes. But My tutor has kindly sorted them out so everything is fine now.

My 2D Animation Showreel on YouTube from Here

From this project I have learned that I enjoy 2D animation very much, definitely something that I like to do and something that makes me enjoy animating. 2D work requires a lot of drawings and also staring at the laptop screen for many many hours... but I think these times are definitely worth it for my outcome and also for my future.

I am pretty much happy with my outcome, however my showreel ideas has changed a lot throughout the time. I am glad that I have managed to add more work than I was planning to put in. The only thing I could improve for the next time is to make sure I have set everything in the correct size and format so that I won't need to fix everything up at the very end, also I would definitely draw my animations more clearly, some of my work are quite low on the quality so I will make sure to spend more time on each animations. 

Final Week - Storyboard

 I forgot to post these storyboard when I made them while ago, so here it is. Storyboard for my Fish animation and Girl and Boy animation.

Week 12 - Girl and Boy Animatics DONEEEEE

Girl and Boy animation/Animatics DONE I think. I've worked on this for such a long time and I think I am happy to add this to my showreel now... FINALLY!!!

This one was probably one of the most tricky animation that I have ever animated. Both of the characters are anatomically difficult since they are human and I got to get their movement right, otherwise it will look strange.
I was going to make this into a full proper animation but since this work is for the showreel and the whole plan from the proposal was to show how I can create the storyboard, so I have decided to leave it like Animatics. (I guess it's smoother than just animatics? I'd say this is half Animatics.)

From now on I will be working on putting all my works into one video and actually make my showreel.

Week 12 - Flying animation done

Week 12 - Bird

Character sketch of my bird.

Week 12 - Flying Animation

Another Experiment, a bird.

Week 12 - Change in Proposal

I have realised that I have not been too good at following my first proposal... which was to create a short storyboard based on fictional stories. I found it very difficult to create a 'short' storyboard based on the fictional stories, I'd rather create a long proper film to tell the whole story but not enough time and I thought it would be better if I just create a couple of short storyboard and animate them, rather than just sticking with one animation/one drawing style.
I also wanted to experiment the animation that I have never animated before, for instance, my previous post of "Hair Animation' was definitely a challenge, but worth  me since I have managed to learn more about it.

For my Showreel I would like to put the basic animations such as walk cycle at first, play each of them for 10 seconds and then at the end I will put my 'Girl and Boy' Animatics/Animation.  By adding them all together I am hoping to achieve around 3 minutes (or more maybe) in total, I would guess this would be an enough time to show my skills.

Week 12 - Hair animation finished

Finished animating and colouring the Hair animation.

This one was very tricky one since I had to think about the natural hair movement and also the shadow under the hair on the face. 

I've also experimented with the speed.

This one is faster than the original one, I kind of prefer the faster one since the movement looks smoother.