Audio animation final

things I could improve upon:
1)the rock at the beginning dissapears because the background used colour and it over layered everything else
2) the bra wasn't drawn correctly and looked like sunglasses more than a bra
3) when I made the wizard guy shrink it just looks like I have drawn it wrong and its going out of proportion rather than him shrinking, this could be solved by giving him robot legs that retract
4)the bra should make a puff of smoke before turning in to the wizard hat rather than just morphing.
5) I could have made the mouth change back to the rest position more so that it looked like he was saying individual words rather than one long one and also slowly shifted the mouth position rather than just doing completely new ones on each page.

story boards

lip syncing, I found the following references useful.


one of the things I noticed is how the mouth returns back to its starting position after each word.

audio animation

Before starting anything I mapped out the timing of the audio track on dope sheets so I could get a basic of idea of when things needed to happen.I found referring to the dope sheets when doing my animation very useful, it helped me space out when things had to start and end for example how long I have for the character to raise his arm up and then put it back down before he starts speaking.




















































setting/mindmap















for the background I eventually decided with mars because it suited the confusion of the main character and the out of context object the bra. here is a reference for the Martian surface that I based my background on



























for my character design sheet I decided on a green alien for my main character. after looking at a lot of references for aliens I used large eyes one bigger than the other to make him look slightly crazy. there is also a noise at the beginning of the animation that sounds like gas being released so I used his ears/antenna release a green gas at the start. I initially thought of having him remove a space helmet but this would take up too many frames to do well and so it probably wouldn't go well with the audio track. below are a few references I looked at for aliens.




























for my second character I wanted him to appear fairly timid/shy because he didn't say anything in the audio clip, so I decided to go with robots. also shown below are some pictures I looked at that helped me come up with the design, for the detatched feet of the robot I got the idea from looking at the robot gir, Jhonen Vasquez's creation.
















a drawing on how the bra would look on his head.
















wizard hat reference.