Specialist Study 2- Part 10 Painful Decision

So with the lighting and Ncloth all put together I then began polishing up my animation. With most of it done I had time to spare to render the work so far. The reason being was because Michael Morgan, an animator was going to give a talk to us. This would be a great chance to get feedback on my work.

Feedback time

As much as I got some constructive criticism back from Mike, I felt that the feedback he given me was true and that I had to think more about the way I animate. Some of the things he said was that a lot of the performance of my character was cliche and that it didn't give or have the principles that should've been there. 

My tutor however and my classmates so the much improvement in my work, but I felt that though they were being supportive and believed what they said, it didn't matter as much as I got feedback from an experienced animator perspective.

I then had to choose whether to continue with finishing up my animation and make the best I can or....to start again but do a smaller portion of the monologue. My teacher was quite persuasive and convinced me to do a small portion of it.

I then began re-acting the scene and took the advice Mike gave me.

Re-acting the scen

Different workflow 

More focused on the impulsive actions

I then remembered of a video on youtube which I had watched a year ago or so and looked on how another animator worked on a project. This was really useful and I found this to be an eye opener, and told myself to try and use this.

So with Mike's feedback and watching the above video, I then began re- animating the animation

I have mixed feelings when I was animating again as it meant throwing away hours of work away, but when I strived on, I noticed a big difference to how the character moved and the quality of work I was making. 

Re-animating