Kiwianimatic

For my personal project, I have decided to make the first episode for the web series. I decided to make this episode about meeting the characters and briefly getting to know each character's personality. The first thing I needed to get done was to write the script for the episode. I re-wrote the  script approximately 5 times because I was unhappy with the way the story read. I felt there was too much dialogue and not enough action to start off with and then after one re-write I had too much action and nearly no dialogue. It took me five times of re-writing the script to get it to the place I finally wanted it. I drew the storyboards and then put them into an animatic to try and get the timing right and to see if the script needed tweaking. Animatics are also created to see how the story works visually.

                                                                      Kiwianna episode one animatic.

After putting together the animatic, I had the timing of each shot sorted out. I was able to tweak the story dialogue and action to make the episode make sense and to get everything across to the audience that I wanted to. I was a little bit behind when I made this animatic so it didn't have any sound on it which an animatic is meant to have so that you are able to animate to the sound rather than putting the sound on last. The next step in this project is to draw all the characters, rig them and add cell replacements for mouth shapes, emotions and blinks.