For me, this shot has really been a true work in progress. I learned a great deal with this shot, especially with acting and performance, clarity, specificity, posing, timing/spacing, energy, phrasing, wrangling eye lines, weight, drawing. It took a lot of effort, frustration, trial and error to explore and finally uncover a performance that was genuine. As time passed, and the pandemic came, I lost a ton of motivation and artistic motivation. I almost didn’t come back to my shot, to be honest. Little by little though, i pulled myself together and came back to this shot. Things started to click more, and I could really get the animation in my head out and onto the screen to show us a scared boy, hiding, trying his best to make it out of this situation unharmed. It is a tense kind of animation that I do not normally create, and it was a refreshing and wonderful journey exploring this. I hope you enjoy the progress from initial exercise to full blow work in progress story shot, below.
Blocking Plus WIP:
Original Idea Exercise blocking: