I started to animate Sweet Chilli as my next course of action, as to not run out of time and have to crunch toward the deadline, as I wanted to avoid the unhealthy method of working I’ve previously leaned towards. within the animation industry. I started with my harder, 3 day long scenes, but while doing them I realised I could finish them more quickly than intended; for most scenes I completed them in a day, allowing me to be ahead of schedule.
I also took note of some of the feedback I received upon my last presentation; I was told to include an hourglass or clock to give a sense of time, and to include a points screen of sorts for more video game influence. I also needed to make my film shorter; I didn’t yet know how I’d achieve this, as the timings of my scenes and some shots in the animatic weren’t matching up causing the film to be longer, and so I decided to present it as it was and listen to feedback on how to make it shorter.
- Too long- some shots could be cut
- the animation felt stiff and there was too much line boiling
- the addition of the hourglass and points screens made it feel too long
- Anti aliasing of the pngs looked unpleasant
After this feedback, my main concern was the animation looking stiff, so I decided to go back into it and re animate some shots; some would be completely reanimated while others would be edited to include more movement and overshooting. This was the animatic with the edited shots;
At this current point, I’ve run out of ideas on how to shorten the film; I don’t know how to make it any shorter without cutting more things and I feel that the narrative will become even more unclear if I cut anymore shots, and I don’t see where else I can shorten any shots. With our deadline approaching, I feel that I don’t have the time to re draft any parts of the story, as realistically I wouldn’t finish animating anything new on time. I feel it would’ve been useful to make one more animatic before starting where I figure out the pacing issues, but I’m already running out of time as it is after prioritising finishing the animation and I doubt I would’ve been able to meet the deadline if I had done that. I’m going to book a personal tutorial and seek some advice before I create the final version.