story board

Storyboard 

this is my storyboard for my animation that I planed on making on flash it was going to be a frame by frame animation however half way though the production I found out that I didn't have the skill to produce the animation in the time that I had 3 weeks out of 5 of production i was only on the 2nd panel in the storyboard meaning i couldn't have finished it in time so I had to simplify my idea and I managed to complete it with sound however it doesn't capture much attention or interest of the audience 

mood board

This is my mood board i chose to make my mood board on dark alleys and what you would see in them the reason that i decided to do this is cause originally  was going to make my animation about a man who joins the Mafia after defending a man in a dark alley and for the trailer I could have made that scene

In dark alleys there is typically rats , black cats ,litter , shady characters and lastly run down buildings the mood board in the end wasn't as helpful as i wanted it to be but i still managed to use it to be able to create the character

Idea for game trailer

My game trailer idea is about the game smite.Smite is a game that involves mythical gods. there are multiple pantheons to choose from such as :Greek Chinese Roman and Egyptian.

My idea is a fight between 2 Nordic gods and 2 Greek gods.
Loki and Odin versus Zeus and Hades the fight will start with the scene of mount Olympus
it will zoom into the building showing over the shoulder shots of each pair and then the reverse
Zeus strikes Odin with a lighting bolt . Odin dies.
In a split second Loki is behind Zeus and and tries to stab him in the back.
But Hades swings his scythe at him and he has to back off.
The image of the dead Odin fades to  their surprise
 Odin traps them in a ring of his mighty spears and fights them 2 v 1 and holds his own
 until hades opens the gates to the underworld and they all disappear into the underworld.
 Then the screen goes black and shows the smite game details like release date consoles etc...

after effects animation with puppet pin tool and 2-D cut-out

             2-D cut-outs

1st off we cut out the demon in Photoshop into the parts of the body we will be animating in this instance I cut out : the eye , the torso forearms back arms and  legs.

once we have the demon cut up in layers we the import it into after effects so then they are now in folders of layers we then drag them on to the stage drag it onto stage

Then we put it into place and with each limb you move the registry point to fit towards the focus so in this case the torso
then we can begin to animate so then we go to the layer and click the timer and move the limbn in place and repeat till finished animation

puppet animations are different but they are allot faster and smoother however the problem with puppet animating is it warps the image as you can see below

before puppet animating you cut out the limbs but whole limbs so arm legs and head

to puppet animate all you need to do is click the points to move and these points warp into the shape to give the look you want it to show 

and repeat until you have the full animation