Caterpillar + Cherry

Term-Long Assignment example for Foundation Program curriculum, for Introduction to Animation Production class at Langara - Centre for Entertainment Arts.


Students are tasked to create a caterpillar walking on top of a round fruit like this one, to help them connect the dots on similarities and differences between traditional and digital workflows.


To get an overall understanding of what it takes to create an animated scene, we dive into each facet of production. (Pre-Production, Production and Post-Production).

 

Pre-Production

Focus on planning Animation, Character Design, Composition, Schedule & Deadlines, and creating Proof of Concepts to solve any potential problems/questions ahead of time.

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Staging Planning
Character Design planning
Animation Planning
Animation Planning
Animation Test
Animation Test
Assets List
Proof of Concept - VisDev
Proof of Concept - Cut-outs
Proof of Concept Clean-up
Proof of Concept - Combining Digital + Traditional
Proof of Concept - Combining Digital + Traditional

Production

Here's where we savour all the planning before. In this Tra-Digital production we go through Asset creation, Look-Development, and Animation twice. once Traditional, and once Digital.

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Assets Cut-outs
Camera + Lighting Set-up
Camera + Lighting Set-up
Animation Traditional Asset
CG 3D Assets - Shaded
CG 3D Assets - Wireframe
Look-Development
Rigging - Armature
Rigging - Skin Weights
Rigging - Proof of Concept
Animation Digital Asset

Post-Production

Time to clean-up and integrate the Traditional and Digital parts together!

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Traditional Worm Clean-up - Before/After
Traditional Worm Clean-up - Process
Compositing Integration Breakdown

Animation - Behind the Scenes

“Here in a metallic jungle of tripods and cameras, we have an animator in their natural habitat”


- (Robot) David Attenborough

Stills

 

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