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Meeka the Owl Animation T

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While waiting for my daughter to be born, my lady and I wrote our first kid's book together. I'm halfway through illustrating it, and I had the idea to try and animate it too... make it kinda like an animated kid's book. This is the animation test for one of the pages.

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5/5

The animation is superb

grimharbor responds:

Thank you liquidFORT! Your kind words are greatly appreciated.

I think the animation is great! The style too. It's nice and bubbly and smooth! And the expression on the owl's face was very cute.

grimharbor responds:

Thank you! I'm trying to work out if I just want it all to play straight ahead, or inject some kind of user interaction to "turn the page".

Is the colour supposed to be faded?

grimharbor responds:

Yessir. I chose a soft pastel palette to soften it all, to be more appealing for 4-6 year olds. I've ran the pages by something like 70+ parents with children and the color stylings seem to appeal to a great majority of them.

Although this was a test, and a short one at, I see a lot of potential. The animation is quite smooth and the graphics are neither too bland or overdone. The only suggestion I would point out would be to add voices instead of text at the bottom. By having to read, you lose focus on the movie itself. Good job overall.

grimharbor responds:

Great note sir! I've actually got a friend to lay out some voice tracks for it. Will update it soon as I wrap some freelance up :)

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May 1, 2014
4:59 PM EDT