Digital Animation

When it came to the digital animating over the live action footage, we had originally decided that  Molly and I would be focusing on the animating, and Emma would focus on post-production.

The post-production would include rendering out each animation from Photoshop as JPEG sequence, which would then go through After Effects, in order to help improve the quality. Emma was also going to mask out certain areas of the live action which would then be filled with the animated giffs made by Molly and I. This would then be rendered as a lossless file to avoid loosing quality, so then each film could be rendered out through Premiere with the Audio.

We decided that the fastest way to get through this stage, would be to have production on more than one film going at the same time. So Molly worked on the Dancing animation, and I on the crowd. At this point, Emma was focusing on Post for our Stop-Motion animation, so we were all happy to just crack on!

The animation was something that we wanted to be improvised and expressive, so when it came to animating the clothes, we had some sample pieces for reference that Molly had produced. This was just to make sure that we weren't going down COMPLETELY different routes. Also, the fact that both of us had produced pattern samples and giffs, ensured that we understood the style to go with! 

Giffs, Giffs, and More Giffs

The three of us decided that if Molly and I produced around 8 Giffs each, their would be a big variety to choose from when it came to Post-Production. We based our giffs off the original samples we had made.