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Ganko Transformation Process

Initial Plan Ganko is mad at the giant Komodo Dragon because it broke her beloved baseball bat. She must now transform into her magical girl form to fight it. She smacks her magical gloves together and summons the magical energy from within her. It forms into a staff which she twirl in a cool way. From the staff magic energy climbs up her arms and spreads over her whole body. Leaving her in an embarrassing costume. Also to her displeasure, her pompadour is unraveled.  I will make some brief storyboards to organise the action and changes in angle. Storyboards I used Photoshop and an online template to make storyboards.  But I planned out far more content than I have time to successfully animate so I prioritised the important transformation related parts for the animatic . Roughs  After making the animatic in Animate using photos from the storyboards I first made rough versions of each storyboard with separate layers for the different moving elements of the tran...
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2D Assessment Blog FULL THING

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Initial Plan Zed runs in from the far background just before a massive explosion happens in the distance. Thus his exclamation ("Wow, Holy Smokes!"). Phase 1: Dumbing down the Dialogue The obvious first step was to dumb down the dialogue to the phonetic sounds. This should help to set a good guide for when the body language and lip syncs will change with the inflections of the audio.   Phase 2: Line of action layer Next I animated the key poses in a very simplified line of action form. This included the intro with Zed running in but I thought that it would be better to leave out the explosion and animate it last if there was time due to the strain of deadlines and other subjects. This stage is also where the idea of Zed's overwhelming enthusiasm causing him to do a backwards somersault came about. It was more of a joke that originally started to entertain myself but when I realized it could possibly work I decided to keep it. Phase 3: Rough Layer ...
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