CLIP: ZZZZZAP!!!
Added 2024-03-08 07:53:48 +0000 UTCSharing this bit of animatic that I think came out really well. Imagine how it's gonna look ANIMATED!
I had all of this written down, that the machine aims directly for Tails and Sonic dives in the way to protect him, but it was a little difficult pinning down the best way to convey it on a shot-by-shot basis. The most effective divulgence of information. It's gotta move quick out here, zap zap!
At first I had the idea of rapidly cutting between the machine taking aim and then Tails' reaction, but somehow I just thought the split screen idea looked a bit better (and is kind of in homage to Sonic Babies), and it also lets you get in Sonic's reaction so you know how fast all this is happening. It's instantaneous, and simultaneous.
Then there was the shot of the laser actually firing. This is where some magic happened. At first I had it cut straight from the split screen shot, to Tails getting shot at on the ground. When I played the animatic back, I realized that, because of the similar position of the ray gun between shots, it would look REALLY good if I put an inbetween of the ray turning around and the split-screen panels opening up to the big slow-mo shot. AND IT LOOKS SO GOOD. Look at that again, the way the split-screen opens up. Isn't that good? Ahhh everyone's a critic. I'm proud of that.
Hopefully that will be fun and not agonizing to animate. It's going to look so good when it's fully animated I swear.
