Project 1 - Marshal Brant

 

Week 1

This is the story board that I have created so far. I am working on my first frame in Illustrator right now and and going to try and get all of my backgrounds done first before I start animating the characters and environment into them.

Week 3

This is how my first illustrator panel turned out, it does not have any animation yet. I am planning on animating the cat as-well as the smoke and background.

Week 4

This week I worked on creating an opening scene to my animation that showed the entire city, and planned on how I would make it come to life with the clouds and background to be later animated in after effects.

Week 5/6

These weeks I worked on creating my next scene as well as designing the scene to have an animation with the mouse coming out of the pipe and the cat looming over the dumpster.

Week 7/8

I continued to put my scenes together as well as continue the story frame by frame with the cat continuously getting closer to the mouse and also adding a vignette over the entire video so it has less of a cartoony look.

Week 9

For this scene I had the cat's eyes lower down right behind the mouse to add to the tension, which built up to the chase sequence that follows.

For this scene I zoomed the objects from one of my previous scenes and turned the round into a round shape to set up my chase animation later where it would look like the road is actually moving. I also animated the cat to bite down and miss so that his teeth crack the ground and the mouse gets away.

For the chase sequence I switched to a down looking view so that I could switch scenes but keep the road the same and have the mouse running along it.

For the final scene I wanted to have a lot of movement so I animated multiple positions so that it actually looked like they were fully running, and I also animated the lines on the street to go behind the background so that the street looked like it was moving away. This is the final product and I still wish I did some parts of it better, but for my first animation I think it is okay. the movement is not fluid, but I would have to invest way more time to get it that way.