Desk Throw Animatic

For the last animation which is an action of your choice I decided to go with a good ol' desk flip. I didn't sketch any of this out and instead had the idea in my head which I generated into a quick animatic.

The main things I want to include is some angry concentrated typing, followed by an indication that something went wrong, then the character losing it and flipping their desk over.

I explored other ideas such as what sets the character off: either a blue screen of death which is universally recognisable or perhaps a crashing sound. The characters sudden change of mood should be easily associated with something going wrong with the computer (everybody's been there).

Stream Cross Animatic

Decided to keep this more on the simple side of things compared to my other animations. The character will simply cross the stream by jumping on a rock that's sitting in the stream. They pause to find their balance before jumping across to the other side.

Pole Walk Animatic

I was eager to start animating and have been doing so already, the frames for this were saved but I just hadn't rendered them out yet. Here is my animatic for the "running into a stationary object" animation, or as I have it: drunk guy walks into pole, fights pole, loses.

Spell Casting Animatic

Sword Swing Animatic

I've finished my first animatic for the sword swinging animation. I'm pretty happy with it as it effectively conveys what I want the animation to look like.

I was told there were perhaps too many frames in it for an animatic and that I was spending maybe too much time on it. I will try and cut down on frames where possible so that I can get to animating sooner.