Ronnie Leah, BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts, UCA Rochester.

 Today I put the animatic storyboard into Premiere Pro and created the final animatic.  I am really happy with the final look of the animatic and feel confident making this into a 3D animation. I didn't realize how much I left out when comparing the two versions of the animatic for last year. Even now I feel I can still add more, however I want to move on to the 3D modelling first in order to see how it translates to 3D. The movement is a lot better and it is actually clear what is going on between the two. Referencing the fight scenes helped a lot in order to do this. The compositions also help to present the whole thing in a clearer way.  There is still more I need to research, such as camera lenses and depth of field. I will look at this next in order to make sure I am presenting my animation in the best way. I feel like the only other thing I could do to make the animatic seem more clear is by adding sound effects. However I will not do this until a later stage after ...

 Today I finished the animatic storyboard by redrawing the images to be a better quality. I colour coded the two characters in order to make it easier to follow, with green being the Samurai and red being the cyberpunk character. I tried my best to come up with a storyline which would both show off the two characters, the world and my animation skills, while still fitting within the allocated time. I also did not want to overcomplicate the characters movements as I knew whatever I planned to do had to be recreated in 3D. Some of the frames may still seem a bit unclear within the drawings, however I am hoping to fix this within the editing side, which I will be doing next.  Overall I feel this is a massive improvement over what I already had and will help me to plan out the pre-viz in a much more detailed way. I plan on editing everything together before moving on to the pre-viz, just to make sure I have enough shots, however I don't want to make the animation too long. 

 Today I was able to finish the rough version of the animatic. I feel that this version of the animatic is far superior as it contains more detailed character movements as well as more interesting camera angles. I really tried to thing of how I want the audience to see the events unfold and how this could be done in the most efficient way (keeping in mind the time restriction on the brief).  It was hard at first for me to do really rough drawings instead of spending the time to make them look nice, however as I got further along and could see the movement taking place within the rough drawings, I was able to continue and finish everything. I'm excited to see how my ideas transfer to the final thing as I can already see my ideas working within the rough drawings. 

 Today I continued creating the storyboards for my animatic. I was able to incorporate the key comps I had created in order to give a rough outline of the events which would take place and then add in additional frames for context. For certain sections I could also reuse parts of the original animatic which I felt depicted the story well. 

 Today I began my rough storyboard for my new fight scene animatic. I used all of what I learned from my research on how to do a fight scene animatic as well as my references of shots I liked from fight scenes. I did my best to keep the drawings rough and to draw zoomed out so that I could animate with my eyes. 

 Now that I have completed the final storyboard I now want to move on to making the animatic. I started by drawing some additional frames for my storyboard.  I then put all of the frames into premiere pro in order to see if the animatic told the story correctly. Animatic With transitions  I then added transitions in order to tell the story in a way which was easier to follow along with.  Final animatic with audio I then took the video into audition and added the appropriate sounds which depicted what was going on.