At the close of day one, day two of this project started. At this point in time we are about 2 thirds of the way through, which is kinda scary because the animation hasn't started yet! Busy, busy day today. Our writers finalized the script mid to late morning with the animating director overseeing it making sure are the scenes are viable for production and cutting out any bits that are too ambitious for the timescale. The script had changed, but not drastically; some parts were simplified and some that were too adventurous to produce were cut. The cut scene was the axeman one, I think it would have taken a huge chunk out of our time limit to produce all the elements to it, and there were also many poses of the characters, so it would have taken a long time to create these which would mean less time animating. The scenes with the wolf, fairies and elves have been simplified to recreate well in the animatic.

As designer, I have worked on the main parts of the style today, background design, and an overall look in line with the directors vision and we decided that while the storyboard was in creation and to the finalizing stage, we would share the workload of producing the concept art; characters, props and finalizing these. The images below show the initial four sketches of the backgrounds and below those the final four backgrounds that will be used in the animatic.











I think that these designs have turned out rather well and fit the design aesthetic we all decided on, I'm especially pleased with the way the last two images turned out with simplistic detail of the stream and the larger elongated shot. Three of these sketches had to be changed to fit in with the new, revised script that have included panning shots and the position of the characters changed. The first finished image had incurred no changes, apart from added a few aesthetic tufts of grass as with the others. The second image had to be changed to have no valley, so that the elf can sit in a small clearing; the third image just had to be extended to pan over or cut to the shot with the baby in a cradle, and the fairies carrying it away. The last finalized image, had to be extended to just under twice its size, for the purpose of a panning shot for the introduction: a welcome to the enchanted forest.