The next shot to polish is from the raptor, he will be the first one to hear the sound, this shot is his reaction, its a close up to his face where he starts looking around.
It was only when I got the cameras in place that I noticed how bad and shaky some movements were, this shot was one of them, his neck moves way to much like he is having an anxiety attack witht he sound he just heard.
The neck animation was a bit hard as the controls are not the best, I did made this a different scene as it was changing the animation from other shots. As it can be seen, I have the environment set up in the process of polishing this shot as I needed to do something else other than animate.
I was quite happy with the polish of animation of this shot, the movements are much smother and it makes it calmer.
Environment
For the environment, the idea was a desert, so I found a set of cactus models on turbo squid as well as the tree in the middle of the rocks, it was exactly what I was looking for but it does not have any textures. It would be amazing to have time to take care of those details, but for now the priority is really finish animation and all the rest comes as an extra to the project.
Environment preview:
Assets:
The next shot is from the seagull, when she hears a sound and looks back, stopping for a while and accelarating the flight. Again, this is where the birds short animation from pixar was helpfull as I was not seeing the wings flapping in every quick movement of the bird. The eyes are the main thing to express her fear so my thought was animate the pupil.
After a lot of tweaks, the final polish of this shot: