Before commencing production, I hoped to write clearly my intentions for this shot.
I hope to animate the shot I hoped to animate in Canada, but my lack of experience prevented its completion. My attempts at animating a sneeze has provided some confidence and with this in mind, I hope to proceed.
The shot is to animate part of the song 'If I only hand a brain'. The scene begins after our character, Frankenstein's monster, has dug up a grave and at last, his quest for completion is near... or is it?
The aims of the shot are:
1) Character. I have lived with this character for months, initially planning to animate him as part of a two character dialogue. Unfinished, he lacks a brain and feels a bit lost without one, but what he lacks upstairs, he makes up for in the warmth of his heart. It is important to note that Frankenstein is a villain and I wish to show this under core.
2) I will begin by animating the spine and head. Hitting the beats simply in the rotation x (forward and back). This will be the core of the shot, that will lay the foundation for the timing.
This is in a similar fashion to how my teacher encourages timings to be broken down into simple components. For instance, to animate the piano sequence from Tangled's I've got a Dream, he would plan out the core of the movement using a ball as follows:
