Survive the Shadows - Welcome to the Shadows Rough Animation

So... About a month’s worth of work later, mainly 18 days of actually working on it. (There was a break in between production days due to traveling.) I finally completed this thing. This... took longer than I thought it would. Mainly because I went in over my own head with what I was actually creating. This was supposed to be a storyboard/animatic. Storyboards and animatics don’t really have full on lip syncing. They have some, but not like what we got here. Also, not as much animation in general. But... yeah, so in other words, I went above what is expected for those kind of things. I have no regrets, but I will admit it was taxing on my patience with lip syncing. To be fair, I picked a rather dialogue heavy scene. And one thing that proved to be challenging was keeping the video visually interesting. It would be so boring if I just kept reusing two animations of the characters talking. So, had to compose different shots depending on the lines being delivered. (24 different animated shots to be precise.) Hopefully it came out alright. I’m happy with it, just... nervous to see how you guys react. Main thing was avoiding the ever so boring, talking heads only shots for the whole thing. Speaking of lines, a HUGE thank you to the lovely gentlemen who provided the voices for Wilson and Maxwell. I was seriously so hyped when I first heard their voices for try outs and then having them actually read the script. Just... Gosh. It’s kind of cool hearing what you wrote come to life with actual voices. Just... chills. Least for me. So, what happens now? Well I plan to do more videos that are scenes from Survive the Shadows, however, they will most likely not look like this. Future videos will have a more storyboard/animatic look to them. Also, I should note, I’m not planning to retell ALL of Survive the Shadows in this format. Only particular scenes and maybe even scenes that weren’t even in the original text. All a matter of what sounds good to me. I just felt the need to at least do the beginning as a means of introduction. But yeah, I think this was good for me, just... next time... I need to calculate what I’m able to handle and what won’t cause me to go slightly insane in the process of making it. One final thing. Remember, this will not be cleaned up or fully animated. This was originally intended to be a rough animatic so it stays that way. Only way I would find myself doing something fully animated for this thing is if I had a team. Which I don’t. There might be something in the future that will be a full animated video, just... not these things. And that’s about it. Thank you so much for watching and I hope I can continue to entertain you with my work. Don’t Starve © Klei Entertainment SURVIVE THE SHADOWS LINKS ► AO3: ► dA: ► : ► tumblr: VOICE ACTOR CAST Bear of Zeus ► Josh Lambright ► ► ► AILEEN ROSE SOCIAL MEDIAS ► dA: ► Instagram: ► Tapas: ​ ► tumblr: ​​ ► Twitter: ​​ STORM ARASHI SOCIAL MEDIAS ► dA: ► tumblr: ► Twitter: