Negotiated Study Two: New Animatic

So to get an idea for my new idea, to know which scenes I would still be using  and to work out how this changed animation would work and feel I made a quick new animatic (from my original animatic) along with part of the soundtrack that Chris Lacey had made for me.

Here it is...

I was much happier after making this, I felt that it was much more achievable within the time I had left to work with and became much more optimistic. Although it's not shown in this animatic I planned to show the build of fat throughout and show the deterioration of the organs as the fat built up. Then at the end the clot would form and the heart and lungs would stop beating. Something I had to research was if you would stop breathing before or after your heart stopped beating, and it turns out that you may take a couple of breaths after your heart stops. This because your lungs are controlled by your brain and its only when the brain is starved of oxygen (lack of oxygenated blood from the heart) that your lungs will cease to breathe. So now I was making an animation about heart attack, this would show what would risk a heart attack (fat), the cause of a heart attack (a clot in a coronary artery) and what happens. I would also like to add in a figure at the end of the animation to inform the British public how likely it would be for them to die from a heart attack. Especially as heart attacks are the most common way for someone living in the UK to die.

Negotiated Study Two: Lung Growth

Despite the time problem I decided to crack on with the lung growth sequence, but decided to make it simpler and quicker to do by stopping the movement around the body to the lungs and make it just jump from the brain to the lungs. However I still felt that it was taking me a long time to animate the lungs growing just through the detailed nature of the lung drawings. Not knowing what to do and having time ticking by I decided to email my tutor to see if she could give me any advice. Many suggestions were made but one that made the most sense was to cut it down and focus more on the ending. From this I decided to get rid of the beginning with the growth sequence (all of the work that I had just done) and make it into more of a public information film about heart attacks. 

Anyway, here is the lung growth sequence that I didn't finish.

Negotiated Study Two: Brain Growth

Following the growth of the kidneys and bladder I decided to follow the movement around the body up to where the brain would grow. I decided to start from the left kidney and move up from there. The movement around the body isn't very good in this sequence as it does a bit of a zig zag, obviously where I didn't chose very carefully as to which key frames to use from the animatic and so am not very happy with it at all. Again, this sequence took many more days than planned to create and so I really started to panic about finishing the animation, especially as I hadn't even finished the growth sequence and was two or three weeks from the deadline. 

This is the animation of the brain growth sequence

I kept the brain growth pretty simple and used the same sort of technique as the past few organs which I felt worked well and was satisfied with.

Negotiated Study Two: Kidney and Bladder Growth

This sequence was quite complicated but more time consuming than anything. I think that was due to the amount of veins that I had to draw, it took up to an hour per frame. The kidneys are also quite complicated in themselves so it took some time to draw them out too. I had set aside 2 days to do the kidney growth sequence and 1 for the bladder but in all it took me 7 days for the kidneys and 4 for the bladder Although it was lengthy I did enjoy animating this part. Due to the amount of time it took me to do I did start to worry if I was going to be able to finish the animation, especially as I hadn't even painted any of the scenes, and painting usually took longer than drawing the frames. Here is the result

The movement around the body wasn't as fluid as it was in the animatic, this was because for some reason I decided to only use a few frames from it to animate, where I moved in straight lines rather than curved and didn't particularly follow the arteries as I did in the animatic. I'm really pleased with the growths of the organs though, I feel they worked well and I'm happy with the beating of the heart where the heart is in shot. 

Negotiated Study Two: Bladder Animation

So after animating the anus I decided to do another relatively easy scene, just to get it over with before starting on the growth sequence again. So I chose the bladder, this was a little bit more complicated than the anus but that was mainly due to there being more lines to control. Again the movement was pretty simple, the bladder filled up and then emptied. To make it quite realistic I made it so that the bladder expanded when it was filling up and then contract when emptied. Again I managed to paint and digitally alter the frames. Here is the result..

Overall I'm very pleased with this animation, especially with the movement of the urine and bladder, and the way the bladder expands and contracts.

Negotiated Study Two: Anus Animation

I decided to have break with growing bodily parts to do some simpler scenes, so I chose the two anus scenes where the bowels were being emptied. The first was a straight forward emptying of the bowel where the body is younger and the second  is where haemorrhoids develop and the body is older.

Because these two scenes where simple I managed to paint and digitally alter them so that they are completely finished. This is the first anus scene..

This was a relatively easy scene to make, there's nothing complicated about it and so it was quite relaxing to animate. Overall I'm happy with it movement wise and visually

This is the animation of the anus with haemorrhoids

Again this was very simple to animate, it was a little bit more complicated than the first anus animation but that was because of the growing of the haemorrhoids. I found this very fun to do and I'm very pleased with the results. As you can see there is more fat on this second one than the first one. This is because as the body gets older there will be more and more fat build up on the organs and body parts, the fat is the cause of the death and the heart attack and plays an important part of the life of this body. This also aims to make the audience think about the roll of extra fat on their body and how it could possibly affect them.

Negotiated Study Two: Heart Growth

Having done a few test animations I decided that it was about time that I started with the actual animation. So I started at the beginning where the heart and veins grow and then the heart starts beating. 

This is the result..

So to start the growth of the heart I decided to start off with a representation of a cell and to then make it divide as it would in the womb where the embryo grows. I was very happy with this effect, although I do feel that at one point where the heart is almost visible there aren't enough frames, and so the movement is way too quick. I may have to add in some extra frames. With the heart growth sequence I didn't really plan it out, instead I made it up as I went along and I think that that was my downfall. 

The growth of the arteries and veins where pretty simple and straight forward and I was very happy with the result of this. And finally the growth of the blood and the beating of the heart came next, in which I was really happy between the smooth transition of the two. I was going to do it like I had in the animatic where the blood formed within the heart and then got pumped round as more blood was made but this would have taken me far too long. So I found a simpler and shorter solution that I felt worked really well.