Hidden stories (I'm not great at naming things)

So It's the Christmas holidays huh?
I should enjoy my time off you say?

NAH! Being the busy bee I am, I have been taking full advantage of living in Edinburgh, for this terms arcing project : "Hidden Stories", in which our animations have to be influenced by an object from one of the Edinburgh museums, of which I have visited most of by this point in my holidays. Haha!

So I thought a quick update could be quite nice. I have so far visited the childhood museum and the people's story museum. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll have done the Edinburgh museum and the writer's museum.
 In addition I have seen most of the monuments in Edinburgh as I live here.

I really need to stop talking now. Just look at the stuff I've done already! :D

They're in ranking order from my least favourite to my favourite. No offence art works... I feel bad now... I take it back!

the animatic

I should mention I storyboarded and made an animatic before turning my attention to my character. So here are they!

I'm really pleased with the progression since then actually. I no longer have the cat. I changed some angles, I developed a general style of close and tight angles for the entire thing and I made it less tacky whiles still making it more christmasy, which aint easy baby.

To prove that I didn't just make all that up here is my animatic from the last time I updated it:

Told you. So since here I have taken the door out and replaced it with a scene where he carves his pumpkin and places a tea light in it. I wanted context to begin with but doors always seem to imply movement and because their wasn't any it became an irrelevant scene. In addition I squabbled with myself about the religious connotations of the tree but decided to leave it in there. And lastly I decided to include one wide panning shot of the neighbourhood just after the character leaves and realises it's Christmas just to give people a chance to absorb the actual Christmas message of the card.