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. 

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 - Flying Animation

Another Experiment, a bird.

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.

Week 12 - Hair added colours

Added colour. No shading on the hair yet.

Week 12 - Hair movement

Another new animation today, I've concentrated just on the hair movement.
His head and body stay still, except the hair.

Week 12 - Girl and Boy nearly done...

Week 11 - Horse Walk cycle complete

A bit of change on his head movement.

Week 11 - Cat Dance neaten

Added tail and neaten up on Photoshop.

Week 11 - Cat bite re-drawn

edited and changed some timing.

Week 11 - Cat Walk Cycle complete

Re-drawn the walk cycle and added tail movement.

Week 11 - Fish animation finished

Holiday work - SNAIL!

Just because.

Without any movement, just messed around with the timing.

Holiday work - Fish animation

With bubbles and colours.

Holiday work - Something different

Okay... so I got a bit fed up with doing my main animation so I thought I'd do something different today...

I honestly don't know why I have chosen fish, it's just came up in my head and got desperate to draw them out.

Holiday work - more animatics... again, again again again

added the last scene and a bit of colours, I've decided to not do lip sync since I thought it's better without any voice.

Holiday work - Animatics improved again

Added background and another scene at the end

Holiday work - Horse Walk cycle complete

Week 10 - 4 Leg Walk cycle Ideas

I wanted to try animate 4 leg animals... and the first animal that came up in my head was SHETLAND PONY. They are basically a pony with very short legs, this odd-looking but adorable pony just popped into my head and thought I'd try animate them.