Last week was a very exciting one for Mango Mercury studios and Kinnaree. As CGArts and Animation course got the chance to showcase our work in The Business Design Centre in London as part of the New Designers exhibition. It was a very rewarding week where everyone got in contact with people from the industry as well as graduates  from universities across the country.

'Kinnaree', as well as everyone else's work received a lot of positive comments. Apart from that, our course won best stand award which attracted even more people to try out our 20's style cinema stand. We are grateful for our tutors' input to this amazing stand which promoted our work even further.

Kinnaree by Dayle Sanders and Andriana Laskari | Make Your Own Book

This post sums up what we have been up to for the last few weeks after submission, in preparation for the New Designers exhibition in London this upcoming July. We knew that at the time of submission, the incompleteness of Kinnaree was not ideal for New Designers. There were major issues regarding the editing of Act two and three; the shots didn't work as a composition; there was hardly any communication between the two characters and the position of the characters in the scene was confusing. It should have been a thing of the past going about the editing of our animation the right way, re-evaluating things like the order of shots and the camera behaviour. 

This is our first attempt in re-story-boarding. In this version, we attempted to scrap the part where Kinnaree was falling and instead replaced it with facial communication between the two. 

This second version based on playblasts is our most resolved one. We are happy  the shots work a lot better now and hoping to keep on animating the rest of the scenes this weekend.

Also, some environment experimentation we've been up to to enhance the props.