Re-shoot!

I showed my animation to a few people and after receiving a lot of feedback on the current animation I decided to change the storyline a bit to make it more interesting.  Instead of climbing over the pencil case the character now turns the lamp switch on and off, walks across the keyboard on my laptop and draws a picture with mini pencils. As he walks along the laptop he trips and cuts off the music. He clicks the spacebar buttons and the music resumes as he walks off. Also, when he draws out a cola bottle on a piece of paper it pops into a Haribo sweet and he scratches his head in confusion before walking off.

The original cardboard cut out I was using lost his feet due to the bluetac eating them up, so i sat him on the shelf and included him in the new storyline. He waves at the new guy as he climbs the rope.

As I was putting the new shoot into after effects some of the frames wouldn't play. This was highly frustrating as there was no logical reason as to why these particular frames wouldn't work, however I merely changed the properties of the few frames and then re-imported them.

Also, some of the frames were corrupt. There were two frames in between the lamp sequence that also refused to play so instead of re-shooting the whole thing I simply cut out those two frames. Thankfully it worked just as well without them!

As you can see it made me cut up the sequence quite a bit. I had to make sure that each part of that one sequence was stretched to the same amount so that they all played at the same speed.  Stretching the length of the sequences slows down the animation by a certain percent. I needed to do this as the character moved too quickly for the music and the actions went by too quickly to notice them properly.

when it came to adding the music I had already decided that I wanted the first part of the track cut off so I moved it along until I came to another quiet bit in the track so that it still starts slow. The beat then kicks in just as the man starts to walk as you can see from the wavelength below the animation. I haven't yet figured out how to make the music stop and start when he trips on the keyboard so that bit is still to come!