Hi all, just wondering a couple of things about my project and was wondering if I could get some feedback:
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So, from what I understand, an animator doesn't need to be super good at drawing, but as i've been instructed, needs to do a lot of planning and preparation. I was told yesterday to start developing an Animatic (Animated storyboard). Just doing it in Flash. I'm not really good at drawing and I should disclaim that a lot of this involved tracing from pictures in layers. It's more about following a technique than anything else... Still, I thought I should put this still shot up anyway for a couple of reasons...
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Could I please ask for feedback? Mainly regarding choice of colour etc. I want to try and keep each character as close to the vision of each individual player/writer as possible... Things I want to run past everyone include things like the addition of grenades on Gands bandolier, lekku head-wraps on Kacela etc, colour schemes, outfits and so on.
I have a friend from class who has been drawing some characters up anime style too, because I may be considering trying to produce the final project anime style. He did alternative depictions of both Cal and Kacela, Cal with reading glasses and ponytail because of his fascination with biology and Kacela with a veil, which I just thought was different, I liked it.
You can see I roughly traced Kacela from his work, but i probably shouldn't have done that, because it was originally anime style, so I may have butchered it. Then again, this is just the Animatic, so it's all early days... I'm hoping that he may produce a full digitally coloured piece similar to this, but all in his hand....
Finally, kind of an awkward question, but... In an animated series format, do you guys see the group as having a main character story-wise? I have units where I will need to show that I can adhere to correct script formatting etc and that was a question the teacher asked me...[/sblock]