Week 18: Once For A Whole Day - Watercolour effect

After the first test, Sheng explained that this is similar to the style she wanted but she needed the effect to be more hazy in style. She gave me an example of how she wanted the effects to flow.

3D水墨动画（恬）

                                                                                       (Style example)

 She also told me that she needed the movement to progress from the right-hand side to the left-hand side of the screen (appearing with the character as she runs across the screen) and made me a quick example of what she meant.


                                                                      (Li, 2014)


With the character movement looking like this:



                                                                      (Li, 2014)

This was really useful and really helped me to understand more about how the style of the effects could really enhance the feeling that she was trying to create.

So I edited the existing test to try and match this particular style and movement.




This was much more along the lines of what Sheng needed although it is really rather slow. I will likely need to do another quick test with more accurate timing.

Week 18: Once For A Whole Day - Painterly Effect reveal

Alongside her team project, Sheng also plans to do a short personal project. She explained to me that she wanted her environments to appear on the screen in a painterly way and so I tried to do a test in After-Effects to create the style she was looking for.

Her environments have a watercolour feel to them and we discussed and agreed that the transition should mirror this style.