CoF - Keyframes 2

This post will include scenes  in progress that will be part of the major flashback sequence of the animated short. Unlike the rest of the film, this sequence will not be animated frame by frame but simply with keys and dissolving transitions.
Scene 41 - This will be a long shot of the farm, with Blodwen (the main character, the fairy) playing with her dragon in the yard while her father enjoys his pipe. I've decided to draw the characters in a larger scale so that their resolution won't be altered too much in the final export.

Scene 42 - A medium close up of Blodwen, playing with her dragon, creating bubbles with her wand. The dragon will be partially off screen, but i've decided to draw his entire body as i will make him jump every now and then.

 Scene 43 - A medium close up of her father enjoying his pipe and smiling back at her. Not much of a motion in this scene other than his pipe's smoke. It shall be animated using a bone tool in Adobe After Effects.

 Scene 44 - Is the same as Scene 42 except here the character's attention is drawn off screen to some marching soldiers part of the next scene (Scene incomplete of which progress will be posted soon). The dragon in this scene will keep on playing with Blodwen's conjured bubbles, but her head will turn to her left, simply with a timed dissolve transition.

 Scene 47 - In scene 46, Blodwen will get excited from noticing some soldiers marching and out of fascination she will turn her wand into a sword.
Her father does not want her to have anything to do with the military, so he comes close to her and puts his hand on her shoulder to grab her attention.

In this scene (47), we'll have a close up of her father, looking down at her with a concern look and giving her a discouraging head shake.

In my first attempt to make the keys for this scene, i wanted to show a bit of motion, even if the animation would be minimal. So i decided to show that his hair was affected by the motion of his head. Unfortunately, the drawings of his hair was too exaggerated, that when put in the animatic, instead of shaking his head in disappointment, it looked like he shook his hair graciously (because he's worth it).

I've redrawn his hair on that scene and since, the scene looks good in the animatic.

More posts to come.