Animation Tests Phase 3 and 4

Thought I'd update the blog on how the animation test has been going. I shortened the test so that I could spend more time on the process rather than the animation itself, but I do want to complete this scene because this will be useful to have as a sound design test and for other things.

This is the animation assisting stage done over the rough animation, still drawn directly in Flash.

Typically this would then go to a clean up artist, but in an attempt to turn a negative (no time or money - that's actually TWO negatives) into a positive, this still very rough animation will be the new "look" of the cartoon.

And here's all the elements put together in a comp:

I can live with this, but I think it can be better. Still working on some After Effects magic to tweak the look. For a larger version you can actually see, go here: http://www.niemannworks.com/rubyrocket/tests/comp.mov