Animation 4

The final scenes left for me to animate were the pre-travel sequence scenes. As time was running out, I decided to cut the scenes after the flashback in favour of having Beram's expression change from sad to determined, as this would take a lot less time while still telling the story. I also cut the head falling down and added it to the back view instead, as this would be quicker to animate. I started by animating the heavy breathing scene:

This was quite a simple scene, and I basically just animated one breathe and then reversed it, then looped the whole thing. I changed the timings of the breathe out to make it much quicker than the breathe in, to show how exhausted Beram was. I also quite liked the messiness of the lines as it made the scene more dynamic, so I kept that in the cleanup.

Next I animated the head turn. As this was a close up shot, I wanted it to be very clean and well animated, so I spent quite a bit of time on this:

I made a timing chart and drew the keys, and then the exremes to get a slight dip to the head turn, as well as a slight pause on that dip. I'm very happy with how this turned out, and I think the animation remains the right shapes and feels solid, as well as has good timing and spacing. I think the mouth lingers a bit too much on that dip however, though it's only for a frame.

This was the last scene for the handrawn ones, and overall I'm very pleased with all the animations. I think I managed to convey the right mood with them, and managed to do them quite quickly for me.