Internship Work #9

 

[time taken: 1 week; 1-2 days per shot]
 
These shots are part of a much bigger scene, involving a caveman chasing after an animal. Here, we were given different storyboards for each shot, which we have to base each our shots off of. The new shots were based off of these storyboards:






Description: A much larger animal has jumped out of the bush, ready to ambush the caveman. In the nick of time, the caveman throws away his prey and jolts off, with the big animal (a sabre-tooth tiger) giving chase. The caveman then finds a cliff and climbs up it, and the tiger is seemingly not able to catch up...

Here, I also included some corrected versions for the previous set of shots, as shown in the previous blog post. Here, I made it more faithful to the original storyboards, as per the feedback of the given shots.

For the new shots, I had searched up some reference for them, since these shots involve actions that haven't really animated before. Namely, I had never animated biped/quadruped running and biped climbing before. So, I used some references for those given shots.



I had mostly stuck to the storyboards given to me this time, but I did add a POV shot in between the running shot and the climbing shot, for the sake of further context. I also added a few additional gags that weren't there in the boards, namely, when the caveman dashes off, leaving the animal tumbling in the air, then falling down to the ground.


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