Finished.

Some progress, but still not finished....

And the coloured reaction shot. It's running faster than expected so I'll have to add a frame or two later on if I got the time.

I ended up making a few changes on the animation of the reaction shot after getting feedback from the tutors. I'm not entirely pleased with the last part of the movement, but I will not be looking into it any further (i.e. at the moment). I added marks for where the shadows will be on the face.

>>> http://youtu.be/xZEPi9JOvfU <<<

This was the test for the shading, as I wanted to see if only having a shadow under his eyebrows, surrounding the eyes,would look good. Turned out it looked more like a mask, so I decided to to do it on the whole character.

I have come to the conclusion that the still illustrations for the flashback sequences might turn out to look too... well, still, also considering that there are quite a lot of them in the introduction of the trailer. I have consequently decided that I will draw each illustration about 3 times so the lines will always be moving even if the characters are still. This will only be applied to the characters, not the backgrounds. I have not made any tests on this thought, but hopefully next week I'll be able to finish a few of those shots.

I started working on the shot of the tombstone. It'll look much different from this, as this is just a base layer of colour before I start working on detailing the piece.

The pan of the warriors with colour. Will add a silhouettes layer behind later on.

Also I pretty much finished animating the shot where the troll reacts as he notices the dagger is not by the tombstone. It needs a few extra frames at the end to easy in, but other than that I'll call it finished, let go the colouring that is. Can't say I'm completely pleased with it, but I have to move on to the next one..

I started drawing the flashback sequence shots on paper last week but never got around scanning them earlier, since I gave the film a break so I could work on my dissertation.

Pan shot of the human warriors drawn in two sheets of paper with a ball point pen. The colour set will be the same as seen in the animatic.

The leader of the human warriors will stand in front of his army. I will animate fire on top of the stick he is holding, and I have him on a separate layer to add parallax to the scene, which will also be accomplished by adding another layer of silhouettes behind the army.

This is a test of the colours and pen lines for the very fist shot of the trailer. It is not finished though, as I want to try to add something more to it...