Pre-Production - Second Animatic

For the second animatic I finally had flash on my home laptop to do it on, and so, with the same storyboard, and the feedback I received about the first draft from last week's session, I was able to create a much better and practical animatic. I drew straight into flash using my drawing tablet again, and focused more on getting the timing for it down right, as this was the animatic I may send to sound students if I decide to contact them about working on my film. I also worked it all on one scene, which looking back, may have been a bad decision as it’d be more complicated to make changes to, but not the end of the world.

I feel this animatic is much better than the first draft, the movements are much smoother, since I tweened on flash instead of each frame in movie maker, aswell as the timing of the scenes. Viewing it I can imagine in my mind the sounds that will play in the scenes and how it will improve the atmosphere and viewing experience of the animation. Although one or two moments do have some timing issues, its difficult to know exactly how long to make each scene without an outside perspective, as after working on it for hours, you know what happens in each scene, and start to think its dragging on and pausing at some moments too much. Another issue was the still present confusion the viewers were having about which people had the kitchener’s face, as I had not changed it from the previous animatics simple moustache, which doesn’t resemble the Kitchener’s There was no sound on this animatic either, but I have sorted out what sound effects, foley and dialogue I want to play in each scene. Overall I believe this 2^nd draft in a vast improvement on the previous one. The timing is effective and I’m able to work off this to create my final animation in production.