I intend to use Photoshop to animate the assets. I haven’t had much experience in animating so it is something that I will have to learn at the start of semester two. I plan to watch YouTube videos and use the Photoshop tutorials to help me with this process.
The elements that will need animating are:
Approach:
I’m currently undecided on how I will be animating the different assets. For the characters, after talking to some of my peers who are experienced in animating, they advised me to animate the skeleton of one animal, and since they all share the same body I can reuse that for all of them. This is the main reason why I decided on keeping a uniformed body shape - it will be much faster than having to trace each part of every pet again and animating them individually. Another option would be rigging in Unity, however, the learning time for this might be longer. For the one-off assets that need animating, I believe frame by frame is the best option. I will look more into these options at the start of semester two.
Intended animation style:
https://giphy.com/embed/f5uw06bJXPhiU5wW02
https://giphy.com/embed/ZFQ17D479k1M4v2hgH
https://giphy.com/embed/VkO3MJFTEpwJD4XlIp
https://giphy.com/embed/RRdrdWW8cuPnZ9kRKV
https://giphy.com/embed/0jfBL1hz9cc1yTBtBY
https://giphy.com/embed/mgaJcVqCFYwCZZ3KR6
https://giphy.com/embed/InfVHal0UII71AQiJi
Learning material: