The Animated Self Development 4

The Process of developing this Animated Self animation is going very slowly, very, very slowly. At the present time I am currently working on key-frames for the animation with the intention that once their finished I can fill in the in-betweens. Unfortunately, once again, I feel I have bitten off more than I can chew. I wanted the animation to look professional as it is going to be the thing we put on exhibition at the end of year show, plus I am passionate about the idea. But I am already falling very far behind because I am finding that I am spending too much time drawing key-frames and making sure they look right when I should be actually animating.

I was inspired to put a great deal of dedication into creating my key-frames because of watching other animations and wanting to set myself the challenge of creating something you might see in a professional animation. For example in the Anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, the visual style is stunning. Every shot in the show looks like a massive amount of time and dedication has been put into it and everything in a shot works. For example in the above shot, all the desks in the classroom look of perfect dimensions and sizes in comparison to what they would look like in real-life. It makes me wonder if shots like the above had been rotoscoped because of how to scale everything looks. So basically I wanted to draw a few shots that looked as professional.

But I hadn't realised just how long it would take.

The Above keyframe took hours to draw, simply because I wanted to get perspectives and dimensions accurate. Although I a happy with the finished keyframe, I cannot afford to spend that long on a frame of animation considering I still have a few hundred to draw.