The Tempest FINAL STING from Isaac Smith on Vimeo.
This is my favourite sting, and it's the one that nearly sent me off the deep end. Making subtle movement really is a painstaking process (for me at least), but its the most rewarding. The tiny fraction of a second twitches of Caliban's fingers are the most blink and you'll miss them details, and they're the ones that took hours of sizing, dragging and timing to realise. My initial concepts for animation were full of lots of action and things happening on screen, but this brief has really taught me the value of subtlety and strength of idea being more important than aesthetic strength.
The animation around the hand isn't as fluid as I'd like, some of the fingers appear a bit sooner than they probably should, so in the future I would focus early on getting an idea ready so I have more time to spend on the meticulous little technical details.
Time management is always something I can improve, and I honestly tried to focus mostly on completing Studio Brief 2 before getting fully embroiled in animation (because animation scared me), when really I should have let them run alongside each other to allow for faster idea generation and general stronger synergy across both briefs. In the future I want to try to just be more confident in my own work really, and focus on just making stuff, instead of worrying about whether I actually can make it or not and burying my head in a different brief or module. Its been hard for me to balance this module with the others and the briefs inside this module with each other, so I feel that's something I'm trying to get right going forward.
ALSO
Animating that text writing itself took me an hour and a half and about 75% of a can of Pringles to keep me going. I'm very proud of it.
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