Character Animation

In this project I made a simple character with two side characters who told a short story. The main scope of this project was to create a character and a story then animate it. In pre-production I made a story board. I imagined a girl meeting a strange creature and helping and then this story board was created. (Please ignore the horrible quick drawings in the storyboard)  There were a lot of changes on the actual animation. I didn't use some parts of the  story board because I was running out of time to complete this project and I was trying to put too much into a small and short animation when I'm still a beginner.  

Story Board Page 1

The page below; almost all of that story board wasn't used or were changed. Through out this project I learned how to edit my ideas for an animation to save time and make things a little easier. I also learned how to better draw my character so making them move was easier. 

Story Board Page 2

Next I drew my characters and then scanned the images. There were three separate pages but I just grouped them all together here. I then cut out each piece of character in Photoshop and colored them, then I put it into After Affects for animating. 

Next time I would want to complete the whole story that I envisioned in the beginning and make it looked even better. I'd change the cloud being and make it look cuter. I could maybe even animate it in Maya if I get skilled enough. I would try to keep the girl the same and maybe only make a few changes to her and keep the background the same.

Here is the finished animation:

The next time I do a project like this I'll make it a little more simple and I'll try to draw better characters. Overall this project was really cool and fun. Seeing a character that you drew on paper come to life in a computer is amazing and it will be fun to do more.