The biggest challenge is to keep the colours consistent with the environment in the other shots. Also Some backgrounds will be completely blurred to focus on the characters.
Luckily, backgrounds are not taking up as much time as thought, this project is about animation yet the backgrounds still need to be done with consideration and thought.
Also I went to the Animex 2015 festival at teeside university. A really really good experience, it was a two day series of talks animation figures in the industry, various visual effects studios and animation studios including Double Negative, Liaka, Disney and NPC. My four favorite talks were from Ed Hooks, Disney, Liaka and Double Negative. I thought it was funny how Ed talked about how BigHero 6 was an hour an 40 long commercial with no acting whatsoever and then the last talk of the whole event was by Zach Parish talking about finding the characters and the acting in Big Hero 6.
During the evening there was a networking session for people to socialize with the studios, I managed to get my work in progress animation demo reel reviewed by Zach Parish, head of Animation at Disney animation studios.
He gave me alot to think about, his comments were to generally clean up and polish the work before it goes onto a demo reel, and make sure that every pose in every frame is solid so that the silhouette reads clearly and further more to not allow the computer to do the inbetweening, going back to the comment that every pose in every frame needs to be realistic in everything, the arcs and follow through.
I do feel much more pumped to get my skills better and I feel that this has helped alot!
