Third Date

I haven't posted much about my animation for The Message in a little while so i thought I'd give you an update. I have finalised a storyboard and storyline, drawn out some rough cut out body parts and have been thinking about giving my animation a hand drawn look or something similar if it clashes with the brief since i think it has to be fully digital. Here are my finished (but still fairly rough looking) storyboards with a few close ups of important parts. There is also a turnaround picture of my character walking, a design of the dress and the basic cut out shape pages that might be of some interest.

Terrible quality but you get the idea

Character is happy at first and keeps waiting

She meets the waiter but doesn't pay much attention to him

After hours of waiting she asks for the bill and find the waiter's note

Here is the character turnaround

Some dress designs, shorter but easier to animate

The layered dress

The dresses above were particularly hard to design as i had to be able to show movement from them in a cutout animation, without it being too complicated as I'm no whizz kid on Flash. A friend suggested using different layers of material so the dress had a sort of frayed edge, i liked this idea and designed the above dress.

Rough cut out body parts

More body parts