Rough animation test

Hello.

Since we last posted on here, there have been all sorts of distractions, business-based and otherwise, and so development has slowed down considerably. However, we've nearly completed a rough storyboard, and I've started animating a bit of it.

It helps me to do little animation tests as early as possible, as it gives me an idea of where I can tweak the designs of the characters to simplify animation. Wherever there's something about a character that makes it a pain to animate, I simplify it as I'm roughing out the animation, and the character I end up with at the end of the project is usually much more streamlined than anything I could have come up with on paper.

It's visible here, I think - the King, at the end of the animated gif, has a noticeably more consistent shape and sense of volume.

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The Wall

Hello! Like the debut album of many artists, this first post is called, quite simply, The Wall. This is a blog documenting the production process of The Wall, a personal project between Estelle Sharpe and myself. Here, we will post concept art, storyboards, animatics, inspiration sources and anything else that seems relevant to the film. Hopefully, it should build up into a definitive record of the film’s evolution, from idea to idea, from pre-production to production to post-production.