week 5

At this stage of our development, we are preparing the cut-out animation in order to fully explore the secondary movements of our characters as well as show their personalities through the story telling.

Our Cut-out characters

Work Process

Our Storyboard

In terms of our narrative, we decided to improve it by putting making it more rich and engage the characters in some kind of story. As a result, we came up with two small stories that run along at the same time:

• Bob remains troublemaker, but gets chased by Rubby

• Edie falls in love with Adele, but she rejects his feelings.

1st attempt

Our first animation attempt was unsuccessful in terms of expressing character emotions through movement. In addition, we didnt understand the importance of timing, and how we can play with it. For example at 0:05 when Bob licks Adele, her negative reaction is not very clear, because her hair movement is very consistent. At 0:13 Edie and Adele are bumping to each other, which again is not very clearly shown.

Our Feedback was to re-create the animation, think about movements carefully and to use variety of movements, such as circular.

2nd attempt

In this case, we have re-examined our previous mistakes and improved them. For example at 0:06 Bob is licking Adele and she responds very harshly. This was done by breaking the consistency and changing the position of Adele's hair very rapidly.

At 0:17 both Adele and Edie bumps into each other, however the ''bump'' itself became more visible. We have also used horizontal and circular paces, which made it more interesting.

By looking back at the example of ''Coco'' (see week 3), I can see how important it is to consider the character's secondary movement, and how hard it is too. Another important thing that I have noticed by comparing ''Coco'' and our cut-out animation is: time management and planning. The overall flow to the animation needs to be evenly balanced out, otherwise it feels rushed and does not allow viewers to fully understand the narrative. We will take those things into account.