I chose not to continue with 11 second club because it collided with the Travelling Man and Lifting Tower briefs and as this was one of my entries that I would'nt be getting paid for, I thought that it made the most sense to drop this one. I did actually get quite far with it, even though I picked it up half way through October (note to self, unless you dedicate every waking minute to it you can't finish an 11 second club animation with a week till the end of october) I was pretty pleased. My basic idea was to place these 2 characters inside a castle (with a bar in the shot to show one character was waiting for the other) and animate them as line characters due to time limits. I did plan on painting the background but whilst I was working on the bare bones, it didn't make sense to do that first. Get the animation down and then the background. The animators I showed it too at college were pretty impressed with the progress I made, I really struggled with the facial expressions but that's where they stepped in. There are "short cuts" to animating, you only really need to draw a few facial shapes to get the general FEEL for the words. This is called lip syncing!
Talking to the animators about this project was actually really helpful, although I didn't go back to 11 second club, I could if I wanted too!
Going back to see who won the competition was actually very surprising, surprising because they had a VERY similar idea! They also had created a vampire as the main voice, with a slightly dorky looking friend dressed as blade. They were also inside the castle too! The great thing about 11 second club is that it is voted for by other animators, but you can also see the other entries for that piece, its interesting to see month on month what people create around a small 11 second clip! Here is the link to the october 2016 winner so you can have a snoop at the guy who won!
http://www.11secondclub.com/competitions/october16/winner .
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