Animatics

I've done animatics to see the overall flow of my animation. I wanted to see how my idea of mostly moving backgrounds will look. Doing animatics also helped me to spot some problems I'll possibly meet while doing the final animation. I'm quite happy with moving the backgrounds rather than characters. However, I'm not happy that my characters are 2D. This is because sometimes they will need to turn around and while they are doing it, you can see that they are flat. I've tried to change the sizes of my characters into negative numbers. It looks better but the flick is still visible. So I think I'll do the characters in 3D and then import them into After Effects. One more problem I came across is the wall when the characters are entering the restaurant. It's not visible in the animatics, because I've cut it into three separate scenes. But in the final animation, where everything will be one long scene, this will become much bigger issue. The problem with the wall is the same as with the characters, it's 2D. And when it will move across the screen I will either loose the depth of my scene or show that the wall is in fact flat. So I think I will also do the wall in 3D.

Here are three scenes of animatics.