AATS - THE SECOND EPISODE | APRIL PROGRESS

Here's this month's Atlas and the Stars update, you can check out the previous updates for this episode in this tag.

APRIL PROGRESS
I've managed to 100% render and complete two sequences this month! Both are around 1 minute each. I've decided that I'd tackle Scene 5 Seq 1 this month instead of jumping into the action sequence of Scene 4 because I wanted to get a feel for how I'll manage to animate characters on top of moving objects, and with scene 5 having a significantly slower pacing than the fast paced action of scene 4, I thought it would be a good starting point. Keeping in mind that my animation program does not have a timeline, I had to figure out how to keep the illusion of looping movement while the characters moved their heads around to match their expressions. The characters hair, eyes, and mouths were kept separated from the main body. I'd animate loops of the hair bouncing up and down on all the static poses. I'd then layer all of these animations in my editing program and when the time for compositing came, I tweened the full animation to follow the bounce of the hair, successfully simulating the illusion of moving on top of an object.

In Scene 4, these characters won't be slowly moving on top of an object, but will instead be running at high speeds which will demand their hair movements and bounces to be a lot more chaotic and faster paced. Now that I have a method down, it should be slightly less intimidating to tackle this haha

MAY GOALS
I plan on 100% rendering Scene 2, and Scene 4 seq 3 this month since they both have little animation left to do. I'd also like to begin animation for Sequences 4 and 2 for Scene 4, and if I have time left, fully finish what little rough animation I have left to do for the episode!

14:27 minutes of rendered animation
3:02 minutes on unrendered animation
(17:29 minutes of footage total out of 35:00)

⚠️SCENE 1 ROUGH ANIM 100% | ANIM - 22% | COMP - 27%

⚠️SCENE 2 ROUGH ANIM 100% | ANIM - 74% | COMP - 57%

✅ SCENE 3 ROUGH ANIM 100% | ANIM - 100% | COMP - 100%

⚠️SCENE 4 ROUGH ANIM 90% | ANIM 19% | COMP 17%

⚠️ SCENE 5 ROUGH ANIM 48% | ANIM 14% | COMP 14%

⚠️ SCENE 6 ROUGH ANIM 50% | ANIM 0% | COMP 0%