Roughing out Monster for Shot 6

The monsters form seems to be developing with shoulders helping to show weight.

Giving Pip something to stand on

I thought about getting a texture and running it back in perspective to the horizon with a gradient fade to emulate something along the lines of ground, however when I was doing the DVD covers with the spotlight on Pip I liked the look of that and gave it a try.

 I think it works well and it is also adds to the theatrical theme of the animation. The two options I have is the light coming from above out of screen or the monster hand.

Light originating from out of screen

Light originating from the monster hand

Half way through Shot 5 (strings)

More string animation, I'm just off half way through shot 5. I would have been further ahead but spent about 5 hours exploring/attempting to animated 2 seconds of one of the string actions and ending up scraping it in the end. It's annoying having spent so much time on it but oh well.

I changed my mind again about how far zoomed out shot 5 will be, taking on board Jacks input I went back to the original composition.

There's one string snap in the shot that I'm not sure about but I'll leave it settle for now and come back for a fresh look to see what I think, it happens at 0.55 seconds.

Re-Sizing Shot 4 and 5

After watching my running comp and looking back over some layout images I produced in pre-production I realise that Shot 4 looked a lot better with Pip a bit smaller and the monsters eyes bigger, it makes the monster feel more imposing/formidable.

So I made Pip smaller and extended the strings so they still lead out of the screen, I'm still deciding on the exact size but it shouldn't vary too much from what I have now. I'm glad I realised this now before I got too far into the string animation.

I want to do the same for shot 5 when the monsters hands lands next to Pip as the hand would be too large to fit into the screen at its correct size. So I think I'll do a zoom out half way through the shot, I hope this will help break up the shot a little as I dn't think I have enough varation in shot sizes through out the animation.