Animation Pose Exploration and Storyboarding Our Motion Graphic

Kelly Rodak did a storyboard for our moving graphic that we plan to have in our art presentation. It's going to be an animation of Captain Walters talking towards the audience, and will be the first animation done with a 2D rig for Sketch Artist! Right now we're only in the planning phase, but when the rig is ready to go she will be bringing Captain Walters to life! We might bring the timing down a bit though, at the moment we have 23 seconds of dialogue planned for the animation but we might aim for 15 seconds instead to be more realistic in what we can accomplish on top of all of our other work for Vertical Slice!

Here are also some still poses Kelly has been working on for Captain Walters:

For animations, we have also been discussing the Distractions mechanic and what all that will entail.. mostly art asset wise! We don't want to spoil what our designers are coming up with, but we do know that some of them will require animation. Our animator Kelly has decided that their animations will be done using sprite sheets after animating the 2D images in After Effects. This means we won't be rigging them like we are rigging our other characters for Maya animation! We didn't want to waste the time rigging such small assets that will barely have screen time.