Rough Cut Review of the animation so far, with the Key frame animation so far in for review for the 22nd May meeting with the British Postal Museum and Archive (BPMA) as the video below shows.
For feedback and the main one I got to do, is to add a final scene to the animation. And the final scene I ask for feedback is the St Martins-le-Grand building in Central London, as this link shows.
So I used the St Martins-le-Grand building above for my final scene as reference, as the image below shows.
Finally, another bit of feedback is to make the animation a bit more gritty in style or more old fashion. This can be easily done with filters in After Effects. And that is all with feedback so far.
Character designs for the forth coming project with the British Postal Museum and Archive (BPMA). First I started off by drawing down some rough ideas of my coachmen and footmen may look like.
Then I continue with character designs more with some more drawings with some added colour below.
Then I gone into Illustrator, this time I drawn down what the characters will look like in Illustrator, would be easily to animated in After Effects.
Instant feedback, I needed to added some rough outside lines to the characters which I've shown in the concept art perviously showed.
So I went back to drawing board and added some rough outside lines to the characters in Illustrator as shown below.
Now I've started to go into development mode for the forth coming project with the British Postal Museum and Archive (BPMA). I have started to work on animating the horse, I went through the internet and books to see how a horse will look like and how to draw a horse.
After that, I gone onto YouTube to look for horses in animation. I looked at a few Disney films which has horses in such as Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Mary Poppins to name a few.
Also, I looked at Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, to see how they would have draw a horse in each film.
Then, I gone onto the lightbox and started of by drawing a rough simple horse and mail coach carriage for practice.
After that, I properly gone onto the lightbox and started on my drawing of a simple horse walk-cycle's and run-cycles by looking at 'How to draw animals' by Jack Hamm.
Walk 1 test
Run 1 test
Walk 2 test
Run 2 test
Walk 3 test
By looking at the results above I felt that portions need to looked less more of a Pony then a Horse walking a few times and also with the run-cycle the back legs needed to be stretch out.
So, I looked at Richard Wiliams theory of animating a horse walk and run cycles in 'The Animator's Survival Kit', in page 356-359 how to do a basic horse walk and run patterns. As-well, I looked at Steve Roberts 'Character Animation Fundamentals' for horse walk and run cycle's. Then for a formula I taken out the real like drawings of Horses from 'Jack Hamm' and added the simpleness of the walk-run cycles' of Steve Roberts and Richard Williams on how they did it as my Walk and Run cycles below shows.
