As part of our showreel submissions for this year I decided to do an animation with the Kayla rig as it looked like it'd be a lot of fun to animate with:
I wanted to come up with a mini story for the animation, something that I could try and draw an audience into despite being only 20 seconds long or so. I ended up with the following scenario:
"Kayla is returning home from school to find her favourite TV program on"
From here I quickly scribbled out some ideas on paper:
It's not much but it gave me a base to start on. From here I quickly modelled the scene in Maya so I could explore some more camera options. I do this as i find it a little bit tricky sometimes to explore all the camera options on paper:
Once I worked out how the two shots cut together I began work on the first shot as Kayla comes home. I imagined her slightly down, hugging all her books and she walks past the living room where she sees her favourite program is on. As i was shooting the video reference I was getting lots of great feedback from my peers and lecturers as we tried to think of ways of getting as much juice from the shot as possible. For example someone suggested that Kayla does this little dance of excitement before she runs into the living room. I didn't have this in my previous versions but it adds so much character, it's so important to get that fresh opinion on your ideas.
A WIP is here on Vimeo for the first shot. I still need to work on a couple things but i'm pretty happy for where i'm currently at. I've been working on the shot mostly in the evenings after uni for a couple weeks:
Home From School - WIP from James Saunders on Vimeo.
More to come!!
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