Week 4: Thursday 18.05

Today was a group critique of our progress so far. We have a very rough draft, as I am animating and Danielle is illustrating. I have used super basic drawings to get the timing right and will replace everything with Danielle's amazing illustrations when they are all done!

Feedback:

• Our animatic too slow moving and a bit long. 
• There is too much information/animation happening at once. 

This is exactly how we have been feeling. We are animating our storyboard and have realised that we were incredibly ambitious when planning it out! I am really struggling with all the scene changes, and am finding that animating in After Effects has been really fiddly and is taking much longer than I thought. There are so many illustrations and it is also incredibly time consuming for Danielle to try and draw them all. 

We spent the remainder of the class completely re-thinking our idea:

 

We have cut the first 7 scenes from our storyboard, and are starting our motion graphic under the sea. As our topic is plastic bags in the ocean, that's what we want to focus on. We also want to make use of the fact that we are taking these beloved Disney characters and putting them in a very real polluted environment. We have decided to go for a more gory, cartoony approach. We want to really grab peoples attention and create something humorous, a little bit horrifying and, most importantly, memorable.

A few screenshots from our first draft - playing around with typeface as we want something that will match the Disney/cartoony vibe but that isn't horrible!