Animating Bees - Arrow and Bow

The next step to animating the bees was where you see the anger in the bees. We showed this by transforming them into a bow and arrow which fires at the bear who luckily ducks!

Again, like with the logo i had to animate the bees transforming. Going from this big round shape to forming into a thin narrow shape.

I had to look at a few images of bow and arrows first to get an understanding of how it functions. This helped me with the anticipation when the arrow gets pulled back and holds for a few seconds to gain that power and speed. It also gave a smooth fluid look.

 

Here is a clip of the bees changing into the bow and arrow (done on flipbook)

Animating Bees - Transforming Logo

For this project not only did we have to pick one from a group of different genres but we had to advertise our university by showing the logo in our animations.

Our idea was to include the universities logo through the bees which i was selected to animate.
So we decided to add the logo at the start of the chase scene by making the bees transforming into the Universitie logo.
I started off with collecting a image of the universities logo, and traced over it by drawing the bees in the style we chose (left) and started the animation from there.
I then started the beginning of the animation and progressively  animated the group of bees from the last scene i did and transformed them into the universities emblem.

It was really important to make sure the universities logo was clear and noticeable and still looked like bees. To make sure it still looked like bees i drew another emblem but did scribbled anti clockwise to make it look like the bees are still moving and alive.
This was another technique i used to give that life feel to the bees.



I was very pleased with the outcome and was a fun way to advertise our universities logo.

Animating Bees - Moving

Here are the still images from the first animation of the bees. We decided to just stick with a simple scribble design for the bees and thought  Hanna Barbera bees would look like this. As there are a group of bees chasing after the bear this was the easiest way to style to animate and still have that swarm effect.
This was just a basic animation of the bees moving slightly in one direction.
Next, I have to animate the bees transforming into the university logo and arrow...

Sting Layout - Chase Scene

Out of all the layouts i found the chase scene the most difficult. At first i tried to just do a single layout like my animatic but i soon found out this wasn't working. So instead i just made a longer layout design (above).
This was a lot better and makes more sense as this will just be looping making it look like the scene is moving.
The last layout background is the bears cave (right).
This will be attached to the end of the chase scene layout where the bear runs into his cave. Still keeping that Hanna Barbera style, I think these two layouts are my best pieces and show development in capturing Hanna Barbera genre through layouts.
I am very pleased how these turned out.

Sting Layouts

Sting Layouts

 Here is my first layout i produced for our sting.
The image (left) is a early version before i started adding in more detail to the bushes and putting in a sky. The reason why i showed this image (left) is because i was stuck on what colour to make the sky for the all layouts. After watching a few yogi bear scenes i found one where the sky was pale yellow...so i added that in and it really gave this natural look to my layout.

This is completed version of my first layout. As you can see i moved the trees and bushes around and added in the yellow sky and it really compliments the whole layout.
After this layout i felt confident i had captured this Hanna Barbera style.
I felt i had designed this nice effect over the trees and bushes using a selected brush from photoshop.
I was very pleased with how this turned out.

Sting Layout Research

 These were just a few images i looked at to help me capture that Hanna Barbera style for my sting layouts.

 

This was one of my main focus points to get right in the sting. To do a Hanna Barbera genre animation it has to look like a Hanna Barbera first.

I really focused on the trees and bushes in these scenes has they are featured a lot in my sting.

This was a good starting point to start my sting layouts.