April 28th

I began by looking very breifly at computer animation that is very popular in the modern day filmmaking. I then decided that i would make a maquette of my character. This was to help me animate as i can use it for reference for angles when i animate. I made this out of cardboard close to life size. This will really help me when it comes to animating. I also looked briefly at Ratatouille. This film is part of the inspiration behind having a small character so i looked at various ways that that film uses the size difference between the human and small character. I then did a quick stop motion test to allow me to get reference photos of my maquette that i can later use in animating. I then made my first test in hand drawn animation. This was very simply a bit of a walk cycle. I tried it at both 6 frames and 12 frames per second. I decided that if i was to hand animate it then i would use a combination of these frames rates, depending on the animation needed.