And so the animating begins....

After a tutorial with Sharon and David, It became clear that I needed to get going with animating, to clearly envisage a final outcome. I have since re-thought my storyboard and have decided to focus a lot more on the body painting i experimented with earlier in the project. Today, I developed the painted transformation by experimenting with the character's nails turning into claws and the leaves revealing the hand as a transition from another animation i plan to do in film:

Similarly to my first attempt at body paint, I worked backwards. This then was reversed in After Effects  to look like the hand was transforming into a claw. This was particularly beneficial to making the nails look like they were growing. The nails are made out of paper, allowing me to cut away at them to change the scale. The leaves were also made out of paper and tissue paper. I think using paper more in the environment of my film will link my work into a 'real' environment. 

I have made this animation in a format of 9 frames/second. This was as 10fps looked too fast and didn't give the audience enough time to process what they are seeing. I need to now keep to this format. 

The following animation is also a test I did yesterday. The lips are a visual representation of the character's vanity. I think its effective, however, i'd like to use an actual lipstick to apply the colour to lips to look like the character is applying it. I experimented with the character having a white face to emphasise the lips however i think it looks a little clownish.