The first lesson of the week was an introduction to Harmony in order to beging keyframing our animations. I forgot my USB at home so I had to use what I had uploaded on my blog as my references, but since we were just setting up our files for the first time, I was able to upload it to OneDrive and move it to my flashdrive at home. I spent most of this lesson helping out other classmates as my Out of Your Head group had already used ToonBoom for the last project. I did feel quite fortunate for this, because this entire project feels a little too fast paced, and I felt as though those without prior experience in Harmony struggled to take in all the new information so quickly. I definitely would have. I also updated my character sheets with more angles.
At home I worked on my backgrounds some more and finished my xsheets (uploaded to last post). In Wednesday’s class we went over character acting and reviewed the principles of animation to keep in mind while keyframing. We then just continued to work on our files.
On Friday, we reviewed our keys with peers and continued working on inbetweens. After watching some of my classmates work, I was honestly in awe, so much of the work was incredible with very good posing and acting. I realized I really needed to push my animation a LOT more. Unfortunately, this project (and my work schedule) did not allow me enough time to redo all my keys which would have been ideal, so I instead, tried to add a little more subtle background movements to the background characters in my animation.
Week 4 was spent mostly sitting down and just working on our animations. We got two more presentations on inbetweening and rendering and compositing. In class I was working on inbetweening and coloring while at home I would be working on my backgrounds. I really want to improve my layout design and background painting, as I am very interested in those positions as a career. Compositing is also something I am very interested in so I want to find some resources to practice comp in After Effects outside of this project.