I think the early stage work is almost done at this time.
This is the finished animatic for now. https://vimeo.com/417526148 password:MACA
Also I made a lot of changes of the animatic.
This is the old one.
The new one.
This part confused me for a long time. Because I don’t want to delete the writing music part. But it is really hard to connect with the later part. I prefer to design a transform between these two scenes instead of change to another scene directly. So I made a new animatic for this part. And I will put the writing design to the end of the story maybe. About this new animatic, I choose the strings to represent the music. I’m not saying she is playing the guitar or some specific instrument. It’s just a symbol which will appear at the later part of this story as well.
And I also updated these two style frames which I think have the biggest contract. The first one is the bullying part. I’m about to use a very rough line to create the people who want to attack her and also use a very bright colour to make this scene have more visual impact.
I try to make this frame to be gentle and peaceful. And the strings will shows at this part as the symbol of her music. The shapes will move gently with music and it was inspired by Oskar Fischinger’s work.
I developed the character design with the model sheet. Fortunately, I don’t have to change a lot of this character design.