Animatics for iPhone version

As well as the normal frames, I intended to animate a few of the frames in the iPhone version. They would play on touch and link straight to the next panel once finished.

These were complicated as everything that moved, needed to be on separate layers in order to animate them. So with many of the animated frames I had to create and edit multiple layers for parts like limbs moving otherwise they would look far too static and would not move organically. The more layers there were, the better the animation would look, but of course the more layers there were, the more complicated the animation was to do in After Effects.

I created four of these for the graphic novel and I think they compliment it very well and are not just animation for animation sake which is always a risk so I had to choose the frames I was going to animate carefully.