Preparing the animation

Here are my workings out for the animation. For the bat i created lines of motion, where it was going to fly across the screen. And then give a sense of depth and perspective by creating a tube.

I use the tube i create to workout how far away the bat is getting from the screen. If I keep within this tube it will be very smooth and the bat wont get smaller or bigger suddenly by accident.

So here is the tube.

First sketches.

refining the sketches a bit and adding where the wings are as lines.

Clean up! This sceen is also going to be animated fully, 25 frames per second so its going to be really nice to open the film with.

Here im working out what the dog is doing.

I decided to draw up all the frames in photo shop on different layers to save time. This is what they look like all together!

This one was rather difficult as we seet him from the front, side. and behind. He turns 180 so that was fun to get all those angles right.

The landing scene for the girl, she does some big steps pretending to be scary and follows the dog round as he runs by. Timing these together will be tricky.

This is the reference my team mate made of the little girl. I put this in the scene when i was drawing so that i could work out the sizes.

All the frames together of the little girl and he hobbles down the big steps with little legs. Oh my goodness that was a challenge. Getting the legs to look right because of how big the steps are to her. She then pauses and does a big leap off the last step and pulls a scary pose at the end of it. Again im thinking about how a little girl would act.