Cool for everyone witnessing this project thread to get to see my neurons die in real time as the words “Paddington Bear” weave themselves into my thoughts in any way they can. Prime examples are of me calling Roderick “Paderick Roddington”, me trying to say I had to blog paddington but instead trying to “Plag Bloddington” and also “Plog Baddington”. Other words I can give as examples are “Pladerick Bloggington”, “Ploderick Roggington”, “Pladdington Plog.”
Anyway, I’ve drawn the opening shot and put a cool little parralaxxy movement over it so that the hedges move faster than the background, creating this illusion of depth and real camera movement. I also put in rough timings for each of my presenters, and put the effects over the final shot. This is an animatic suggesting the final.
As of yesterday, I also created one huge pavilion scene that will be featured as the backgrounds for the presenters as four separate crops. The fact that it’s four crops of one image will hopefully tie the viewer down to one location.
The next moves are to fit these into the working animatic document, and then – curses and hatred – it will be to start actually animating. I’m nervous about animating because these are real people, and need to be recognisable, and I need to put work out nice enough that it’s showing them respect. Because they’ll see it, you know? I know I can. The nerves are only here because I haven’t done it yet.
SEASIDE ILLUSTRATION 