Circle

Circle from Simon Jannerland on Vimeo.

Circle. I'm glad I got this thing finished in time. It was ha big project to undertake in such a short time and if I would have gotten the chance to do it again I think I would have made a smaller story to be able to give it more time. I settled on doing the scenes in a lot of smaller assets. My idea was that I then could use the same stuff in many places. But thinking about it now I wonder if it wouldn't have been just as easy working from more finished matte paintings and just some extra assets for each scene. That would have given me the freedom to do more interesting environments. 

Another thing I would love to change is the phasing of the whole animation. In many parts it drags and feels sluggish. The story itself doesn't have any real high point where it picks up some phase either which is a problem that should have been corrected in the script. 

The sound is maybe one of the harder parts. Especially since I don't often do that. I'm not 100% pleased with how the circle sounds. I think now that It would have been better to use just instrument sounds like I did for the animal. 

This is the animation from the morph module. Nothing super fancy. Just a quick morph. It was a great exercice though. Got a deeper look into frame by frame animation.