Today I had a really useful session with Charles Douglas regarding acting for animation, and recording LAV footage to use when animating my Fish. I already have some outlines of dance moves for the character of FISH, however it was incredibly helpful to have some direction with how to approach the characters ‘leg discovery’ scene. …
Monthly archives: February 2021
Working on LEGS 16.02.202
I have found whilst working on the animatic that I find it really difficult to imagine the backgrounds in the correct perspective as I move through scenes. I am also struggling with camera work in the film, and am finding difficult angles a struggle to board out. My solution to this has been to build …
Changing FISH’s design.
In a recent crit it was pointed out that when FISH’s character (spoiler alert) gets packaged up for consumption, the product name is ‘Frog’s Legs n’ Fish’, which could cause some confusion due to the lack of frog legs in the film. The reason that I chose this product name was because A. it’s suitably …
Working on LEGS 02.02.2021
I have a pretty solid idea of how I want my short film to look, and am comfortable with the story arc, however have found that the lack of speech in my film makes the storytelling quite tricky. The character of FISH never says anything, beyond maybe a few sounds; the idea is that the …