🌸 Sem 2, Week 3: Working With a Partner

 In week 3 we had to work with a partner.

My partner and I started off by deciding on deadlines and other important things. Afterwards we got a few days to design our character and I went for a very simple boy as I felt like there would be a lot more you could do with a plain charcter than an overly complex one. On our decided deadline we exchanged characters. Alongside a simple full-body drawing I also provided 2 quick doodles of the boys head to make it a bit easier if my partner decided to make him turn or something like that.

After exchanging characters we got to work on each others key frames. I started by creating a very simple storyboard to have a better idea of how I wanted the sequence to go.

When I started drawing the first key frames I found it to be quite difficult as I had to adapt to working with a completely different art style. It took me a while to get used to it however overall I think I did well. I tried to give my partner a bit of a challenge by making the character jump, stretch and walk. I accidentally made more key frames than originally planned but I don't think it was really an issue.

I was a bit nervous when I was waiting to get my key frames back as I wasn't sure what to expect. I ended up changing some minor stuff to make the whole animation a bit livelier (eg adding a jump at the start instead of having him just walk into the frame normally) and I had to redraw some of the keyframes as they stood out due to the difference in art styles. 

Overall I would say that this was a slightly challenging but also very exciting brief. Having to work with someone else felt a bit strange at first but letting someone else decide how the animation will go meant that I had a chance to try something more abstract.