Production Diary #3 - Animation Development

13/11/18

This does not represent in any way what the final animation may or will look like.

Today I have developed my animation to include all of the scenes needed for it to be completed. However I haven't included all of the graphics for the scenes yet.

I began by trying to produce the fade between the pan towards the window and the actual window itself. I feel that although having two scenes for this to work proved to be good in my storyboard, it seems that within the animation it should only happen on one scene.

I have used Animate to import the original graphics into the project and then on my window scene I have included a black box which fades away as the scene animates. This creates a fade effect but in my opinion, it feels as though you are cutting away for no reason.

I think this decision turned out to be a disaster because although it creates the fade effect well, I don't think it fits great in this scenario. I wouldn't recommend against it in another situation however.

After trying this I have definitely realised that although the storyboard might require more frames to flow fluently, the actual animation might not need to include every single scene.

Next I need to decide on the best way to create this transition, I feel that perhaps having the scenes separated (beginning and window) is a bad idea and so I could try fading the foreground out of the beginning scene in order to make it look more fluent.