Here is the initial background sketch.
I took this into photoshop and did an indepth colour tone pass with photoshops paint tools to get a feel for the film in this animatic.
I then took this into after effects and animated some of the steampunk components to show that I wanted a moving, in depth background scene.
My next step was to animate the girl and mother and then the girl running down the street avoiding the crowd in flash. I hand drew the keyframes fro the little girl by hand first
I then took these into flash and inbetweened these to get a more fluid motion and blueprint for the final shot. I then hand drew the people for the crowd and composited them into a movie file to be put in the final shot.
I now put them all together in after effects to get my shot.
I then reviewed the shot and saw that 2D really wasn't working well to achieve the depth of the zoom that I wanted. It wasn't moving through space and so I had to use 3D. I built this test house in maya in 3D and textured it using this hand drawn texture.
The house with the handdrawn texture:
I then coloured the texture.
and created this finished text house
Once I had completed this house I used the duplicated tool to create a whole street in maya.
I created a matte painting of a sky in photoshop to finish the street and turn it into more of an environment that I could use for my shot:
Once I had finished my street, I rendered it out in two different ways. Because I wanted it to look more 2D than 3D I used Maya vector to render out a 2D outline for each frame. Here are the two different passes I did for the street
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| Vector Pass |
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| Texture Pass |
My final Composite and test camera:
I then reworked the camera to get the shot I wanted and using after effects composited all of my 2D elements onto this background movie clip. I took some better drawn keyframes from my storyboard and inbetweened those and re animated the cape guy at the end so the cape didn't swish over the camera as i didn't want it to feel as though time had passed.
My final Shot:
