The next shot is, in my opinion, the most important of this short animation, as it is the establishing shot where both characters can be seen and of course, the impact of both. It had major changes made while polishing, the blocking of animation was quite poor, I’ll have to admit as the project changes were so last minute.
Blocking:
Here, both characters were polished, the raptor still needed a lot of animation on the arms as I didn’t give it much attention before, now they were important for some overlapping action.
Finish of polishing raptor:
The seagul was the one with more changes, wings, neck, eyes and so on. Before having 2 characters on scene the raptor was the protagonist, the comic in play, but now the seagull has got the role the polishing needs a bit of a push if I want this to look anything like I planned.
I am extremelly happy with this shot, not only because I believe I was able to express anxiety from the seagulls perspective but because it was done is much less time than I expected, around 4 hours of work!
I wanted to have a shot from the seagulls view of the raptor grabbing her, a distorted view, at first I just wanted the raptor and maybe the beak of the bird, but it did not look well, so the camera was placed on the right side of the character where I got the distorted view and a bit of the limbs from the seagull.
Blocking:
Polish: