Finally Animating! 02/28/2025

After many months of modeling, storybuilding, and rigging, we’re finally ready to start animating! Our characters still need face rigs, but working on those rigs has been set aside in the interest of getting body animation done. I kinda love this idea, as it forces us as animators to add expression in their movements without their faces.

This first playblast is the opening shot of the whole film. I wanted to add some character movement, and a slow pan inward, but otherwise there wasn’t much for me to add here from it’s previous version.

This second playblast is a few shots down the line. This animation is obviously pretty rough, and lacks audio, but I wanted to give the penguin a good amount of expression in his movement. I want to come back here and give Dino some movement too, but this is where this shot is for now :)