2D Animation: Blythe Transformation (Development)

Development part 1:



So here I have a draft background of what I would like Blythe's setting to be. Dark and a witchy. I have some light beams peaking through the back window, just to give it a "locked away" and "closed" vibe. The thing that will probably be colored or in the light the most will be the table with the magic box in the middle of the room.

Orange glow, beginning scene. Warm, light, toasting, non-threatening.

I think I want the the lights to be the most colored things to set the mood. For the first part of the animation I'll have the lighting be warm and orange, then as she changes it will begin to get a greenish hue as shown in the 2nd picture, till the late scene when Blythe is fully transformed and the lighting will have a greenish and purplish hue.

Fully green and purple lighting. Evil, danger, scary, witch's colour scheme.














A more final draft storyboard for Blythes transformation. I've also applied the colour hues to see how it might play on the overall feel of the animation, also to she where it will change and transform too. I might make Blythe on the darker side too, because of the room. But I do want to keep her warm looks somehow, maybe that might be possible with the warm lighting.
I quite like the last shot, I feel like it's very dramatic. Glowing eyes and threatening pose, dramatic lighting... a good dramatic exit for my animation. With the shadows clearing away, it will also add to it's already dramatic look.






First time putting storyboards through After Effects. After some feedback from my lecturers, I've decided not to follow through with my first idea of a high angle shot moving into a low angle shot. They said that I'd have to use a lot of background layers, and change perspective on many of the objects.
 Overall, it would be a lot of work, and wouldn't leave a lot of time for the actual animating. The teacher suggested a Dutch tilt camera angle. I agreed that would till be a dramatic effect, and wouldn't require as much work as my first idea.

A classmate noted that  it was a bit jumpy and it showed a lot of extra black background around the edges of the dutch tilt, they also mentioned that they liked the dutch tilt too, agreeing with the teacher's point. I agreed. So I had a little play around with the After Effects, trying to find a way to minimize the black background and make it smoother.

This is the slightly altered version. You can't tell much difference, but I'm not too confident with After Effects, and am still trying to find my way around it. I've minimized the black a bit, or as much as I can without taking much away from the Dutch Tilt camera angle.