Final Font

I narrowed it down to three fonts I think will suit the animation the most.

I think I will go for the third on because it is a messy font and is thin lined, like my illustrations. It has a creepy feel to it as well. Perfect for my animation! 

Draft Animation

This is my animation draft. I need to fix some timing, transitions and other issues in it but I like the way it is going so far. I haven't put any text in there yet because I am still deciding on the fonts. 

Trying out the Puppet Tool in After Effects

I played around with the puppet tool in After Effects and came up with this. Its not great, I was just experimenting and teaching myself this awesome tool.

First Try:
Its a shadow monster opening and closing his mouth and moving his arm at the same time. I need to put the expansion up on this particular image. It was on 10. 




Second Try:
I tried it out with changing the scaling, rotation and position of the image. I find this one hilarious because his mouth is awfully animated. I think I needed to animate his mouth first then play around with his positioning etc. 



Third Try:
Again with scaling, rotation and position of the image. This time I used the puppet tool on the teeth first to give a less munted effect.



Fourth Try:
I decided to add wind and make the girls hair move. It's a first try but I like the idea.

Audio Editing in Garageband

Testing Garageband. I haven't used it before but I am slowly getting the hang of it. The video below doesn't have any visuals by the way... 

Final Backgrounds

Birdseye view, when the monsters close in on the girl

Birdseye view, when the girl looks at the rope in her hands

Isolated quick shot of the girl

Starting shot, longer to pan across showing the hanging feet

Subtly textured background for the text

New Storyboard: Final Storyboard

Animatic Story Reel Edited

Claire and I talked over my animatic and I made changes to it, we had discussed. We thought it would be more effective to take out the part of the hanging girl from the monster because it tell rather than shows the story.

The first animatic:


Second animatic:

I feel I also improved the timing with the music in the second animatic also.