After a rather tiring week of reconsidering our idea for this Unit we ultimately met in the middle with two, new, unique ideas that were loosely based off of our original concept: 'Project Ideaya'.
Walk Cycle Idea
While both of us worked on different ideas it was this piece of experimental footage that we captured that really inspired me to work on the idea of walking characters. The idea was to 'act-out' what we wanted to initially capture with 'Project Ideaya', I mean, the idea at it's core ... is to visually represent people's ideas and thoughts using 2D Character Animation much akin to techniques used in films like 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' and 'Space Jam'.
So we decided on afternoon to play around and catch some Live-Action footage that we could use for reference. I then took this footage and then made a rough Animatic for this idea.
Animatic
This is brief Animatic scene, just to get across what I wanted to achieve in this Unit. Nothing is final at this point and we are literally just throwing ideas out there. We might not even use this idea, but it was extremely fun to make this Animatic. I found it exhilarating because I got to work with programmes Im used to and use animation techniques that I have been utilising for more than 5 years now. It was exactly what Ive always wanted to do and it's a shame it was just an experiment because I really do believe this idea has promise. However, it would take a long time for me to make it look 'good' (as is always the case with 2D Aniamtion) time that, at this point, I simply do not have!
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