After the decision to move me into animation, I was placed in charge of in-betweens for shots 4 and 7; the creature circling the island from overhead, and the creature turning its head to look at the screen while twitching its spines menacingly. Tea's keyframes for the idea were amazing!
Shot 4 was tweaked a bit from last time, making the creature's movements a lot more evenly spaced and fluid. It now moves in 3s, the purple lines being the parts of the animation that I added.
Shot 7 needed to be redrawn, with barely any of tea's original keys left in place. Keat told me to straighten the creature's pose when it turns to the camera to show its attentive state, and the movement of its spines is now keyed in ones. I spent longer than I wanted to on making them move convincingly, as the angle was one I found difficult to work with.
Since then, I have been placed back on backgrounds, and I'm now trying to get as many of them up as quickly as possible. Over the past week I've been working on the dark world, a larger dark world tree to be used in several of the later spirit world shots, and the three remaining pre-glitch backgrounds of the dragon flying towards the tree, the dragon landing on the roots, and the dragon looking up towards the ipod. There is potentially a third dark world island that I will need to attempt for one of the shots Jo was working on.
I was told to tackle the dark world and its tree asset first, as the islands and tree can be reused in many of the dark world shots. I had to scale the tree up significantly and repaint it in order to get rid of the pixellation lines, and made the mistake of painting of the pipes on the original small tree. I lost a day re-painting them for the larger tree, and ended up scaling the tree's island down to insert into the full dark world scene.
Having updated the large tree's shading, I shrunk it down and added it back to the original spirit world pre-glitch background for the sake of consistency.
In addition, I also completed one of the spirit tree shots. Hilariously the branches took me a long time to do, while the leaves which are mostly texture took under half an hour. The branches don't have the right contrast level on them at this point, but if I have time once the rest of these shots are done, I'd like to go back and adjust them so they stand out a bit more.
I hope to at least get the other spirit tree shot done by the end of tomorrow. It might be a bit of a long shot, but I'd like to have all of these backgrounds finished by next weekend.
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