Extended Practise: Giffgaff brief - Improvements and Inbetweening

Extended Practise
giffgaff Brief - Improvements and Inbetweening

• This week:
• I made improvements to the animation from last week and continued inbetweening.
• What went well:
• I was able to make the improvements from last week, such as adding the head turn to the first shot and extending the looping fall animation, whilst removing the final shot. 
• The first shot, where she turns her head to look away from the monitor and glance at her desk removes a lot of stiffness from the animation and makes the movement feel more realistic and fluid.
• I additionally finished inbetweening the full animation and added the notes flying out from the envelope, which makes it easier for audiences to understand that it is filled with cash. 

• I showed this to Joseph and several others to get some feedback, which they responded that they liked the fluidness of the animation and felt that the linework was clean. Joseph added that he thought the package should turn into, or "pop" into, the return package with money, so I made this change and it worked much better.
• Here is the improvement:

• What could be improved:
• I think that the turn in the air that she does could be more fluid or pushed a little more, such as doing multiple turns before balancing herself. This would add a bit more realism to the movement, possibly by using more reference of sky-divers or people parachuting.
• Despite being fluid and exaggerated, some of the body parts and expressions go quite off-model. This is something I have noted before, which will come more with practise. I did believe I kept close to the model sheet with this, but there is still room for improvement. 
• When she lands in the chair, the impact could be exaggerated more, by adding a squashed frame of both her and the chair. I decided to keep it less exaggerated, to show a more elegant fall into the chair.
• Next week:
• Joseph will be helping with colouring and editing will then begin!