11 Second Club - August 2014

This was my submission for the August edition of the 11 Second Club competition.

The idea was to have a woman blinded by a bright light, suddenly finding herself in a interrogation room with a suspicious and authoritative man holding a folder in his hand, which contains curious information that probably relates to this woman on the spotlight.

Since the animation ended up being longer then I had planned, I didn't upload the whole thing unto 11 Second Club, and instead edited down to just the man speaking. However, for this I uploaded the whole thing here.

I started off animating by my references, but I started to dislike it more and more until I decided to just follow my instincts. Which ended up being the better option. References did help a lot with animating his right hand tapping on the chair, but it got too distracting when I started animating the entire body, as I felt it got increasingly "fake". After I removed all distractions and just went by my own imagination, things got a lot better. Looking at it now, I feel I should have added more squash and stretch to the male character's face, to sell further on his devious attitude of having this person in his clutches, but facial animation is still one of those things I need to really improve on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQyEdsY1AnU