Scratch-Key
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Gym Surprise: Release~
🕑 Added 2022-08-25 07:32:50 +0000 UTCAlright! Finally closing the lid on this project!
I like how the animation came out and as far as complexity is concerned it's definitely my most complex yet.
I've also learnt a LOT of lessons.
Some include
- For the love of god plan ahead. I just winged this animation like I usually do, making it up as I go. But the longer it gets the better off you are planning. Next time I put together something longer than a few seconds I think I'll draw a storyboard out to plan scenes, camera positions and timings ahead of time. Doesn't need to be complex, even just a bunch of stick-characters to plot it out. just a guideline I can refer too.
- Without a guideline I ended up basically wasting time trying out poses and positions to see what worked. almost 70% of the effort I put into this animation never MADE it into the animation due to me scrapping the idea and starting again or just tinkering around for a while.
- Kind of goes with planning ahead, but learn to time better. I feel like each scene could of stuck around for a second or two longer before I shifted the camera or pose.
- Audio is it's own beast. Turns out Video-Export can't record audio and OBS picks up all the engine-lag. Meaning If I want to add audio to the scene I'll need to learn how to do audio in post. While I didn't try it, a plan I have for the future is to record with both Video-Export AND OBS, then extract the audio from OBS and try to line it up with the video-export file in post.
But, despite my "complaints" I really like how it turned out and it was fun to work on. I think with more planning I could focus enough to make something substantial. Maybe I should open to requests so I don't have to think too much about what I make?
Regardless, enjoy, this animation took almost a week to throw together, which really isn't that long but compared to my usual loop-a-day it's the longest I've gone between animations. It was fun, and more importantly, educational, to go out of my comfort zone to tackle something I wasn't used too.
Sorry for the wall of text! HD FILE BELOW, Scene data will come in the future since it's going to take some effort to optimize it for release..
Enjoy!
Comments
Scratch-Key
Yeah, A part of my learning process is explaining what I learned. It forces you to organize the information you have into something understandable. I also felt the transition was a bit too rough at that time. I think I'll look into better transition effects. Only one I used during the entire animation was a slide transition which helped a bit but during that one cut it didn't make sense.
Touko2020Sakai
I think it looks good! I also appreciate your reflections above and see what you are thinking when making the scene. Ofc nothing is perfect but I do think the quality of the scene is quite high. IMO the transition from 0:36-39s seems a bit too sudden (about the "leaking"). Otherwise I think everything else is great.
