Final piece: Bird Sequence

My final outcome for my unit 4

Progress preview of final piece

Working on animating a sequence of a realistically drawn bird flying, hoping to compose a beginning middle and end, so far this preview portrays the beginning with the bird taking off to fly.

Bird take off test

Moving on from just looking at the flight cycle, now wanting to work towards animating a realistic bird flying, this being a quick test run of drawing a bird proceeding to take working with the key frames only, meaning this shot is quite jerky.

Projected animation

Deciding to take things to a bigger scale, projecting my wing flight cycle onto a projector seeing the wing cycle on a larger scale making it clearer to see the positioning of the wings at different angles through flight that would normally be obscured by feathers, conveying the complexity to flying being more than the wings go up and then go down in one straight motion.

Wing flight cycle

Video above shot without the aid of diagram in background.

Preview

Like before same flight cycle except on acetate instead, showing the lines in a bolder black outline making it clearer to define. This just a preview of the complete cycle going down.

Wing flight cycle

Like the previous diagram test video showed the wing cycle the aid of seeing where the wings should be position, now being animated without the visual aid of guidance to check that the cycle does in fact work without having the need of the diagram to be underneath it. I feel this flight cycle works successfully and runs quite smoothly in comparison to previous animations early on.