Ok this one is almost finished. I marked the spot where the faun girl will be sleeping for the animation, and there's the dagger left to draw in the bag. Once I have those in the shot I can finish it up with some grass overlapping the girl and the bag.

I seem to have new backgrounds appearing on the list! Gah! Here's the basic layout and colours for the shot when the troll is kneeling by the tomb right before he notices the footprints.

It feels like there's more and more work coming up as I do more things. I had a week wasted because I was ill and now I'm trying to get back on track. Since before this Easter break I started animating the close-up shot of the troll's determined look after seeing the footprints... about 6 times! I'm finding it difficult to pull that one off decently as I'm finding it hard to put it aside and try a different shot for now, so I'm basically putting my energy on the backgrounds right now.

Finished. Only thing left is to animate a vine which the troll grabs onto when he's climbing down the Mother Tree.
I really don't like this background... also it was the first one I started and I notice an obvious difference of quality and style when comparing to the more recent backgrounds. Nothing I can do at this point.

Entrance of the troll's house background.

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..