Animation: Narrative Workflow

Above is the play on tour with our animations that were created by our group, as you can see my swimming animation made the final cut, and i feel looked good on the large screens behind the plays.  I was lucky in that most of my aspect ratios were correct so did not need any last minute adjusting unlike other members of my group, so i spent this session and week helping others fix their aspect ratios. During this project we did has a problem with one of our classmates who went AWOL after a few weeks and we failed to get in touch with him at all for the rest of the semester, so it was up to my classmate and i to do his scenes for him. My classmate charlie really pulled through and worked insanely hard to get his scenes done, as well as taking on the leadership role. While he did an amazing job, he could have delegated me some of the scenes our classmate had left us as during this week i was pretty much out of things to do and wanted scenes to help pad out my portfolio for

This week i was tasked with something new, i had to redesign the walrus office, as the one that was made by another group was not wanted by the client, and the other group did not have enough time to redesign their scene, so i was passed the mantle, the walrus scene looks pretty simple as all i have to do is. The client didnt like the previous version of the office as they felt it was too colourful, and they wanted a more vintage approach, to match this request, i began my research into the office by looking at old rooms and aesthetics to get an idea of what they wanted from me. below is what i found during my research I then began looking at Libraries as i really liked the look of lots of books on built in shelves, as i felt it helped with the old school aesthetic i was try to achieve as well as adding a bit of colours to the piece as books will be of various colours and shapes and sizes. Now that i feel that i have compiled enough research to get going i opened up Photoshop

Above is the frame that my animation will have to fit into, However when i submit i will have to remember to remove the frame as it is only template and would interfere with the compiling of everyone animations. I decided that i needed to finish the entire length of the background off before completing the 2nd underwater animation, following my early research i tried to give a sense of depth and also a sense of realistic light fall off in my work, However at the bottom is a lot brighter, this is  because i wanted there to be a separation between the murky and dirty top and the clean bottom. Upon finishing the ocean i had to create the objects within in, including the plug and the rubbish, to do this i created a spreassheet and drew lots of various pieces of garbage, and then removed the background and placed them in the image, and gave them a floating animation in AE. Once that and the plug was added to the scene, i created a basic animation of haroun swimming down, w