Rough Cut Animation

This is the rough version of SpiSpi, the sound quality is totally bad and needs to be retweeked. additionally also missing is music overlay sound track and a few later scenes that have yet to be animated and are staged. some of the earlier scenes need retweeking in regards to easing in and out, some times it just looks horrid. 

Some of the background need additive elements for perspective and to correct 'filler' content.

we also sampled with blur (gaussian, 'fast' and directional) animations in after effects after direct exportation from Flash, which syncs back and forth for instant footage updates.

this content is 'squashed' into a web format as you may notice the squish, originally the footage is 1050 x 576ppt, where it is featured here as 352 x 288ppt.

Animatic V1

Character profile: Bertie

Bertie is a sluggish, slow-witted beetle that is forgetful of what he is doing.

He spends his day flying around the Field looking for shiny things in the dirt. But he often forgets this and starts flying around looking at flowers, which is quite useful as he usually bumps them and spreads pollen everywhere. 

He is a very large beetle isn’t scared of Spi Spi in the least because she is so tiny.

He often comes to look at her shiny web and is devastated when the web gets ruined.

Character profile: Lilly

Lilly the ladybug is an elderly citizen of the Field. She considers herself a gardener who takes care of the homes and plants in the Field by pruning and eating pests like aphids. 

The leaves and grass stalks of the plants there are often homes to other insects and she takes great pride in her work. Often single minded in her tasks, Lilly is easily flustered but things that disturb her. She enjoys the colour green and likes eating large green aphids.

Character profile: Gavin

One of Spi Spi’s oldest friends, Gavin the grasshopper spends his time traveling across the field looking for the tallest blade of grass to climb. Adventurous but reserved, Gavin is a gentleman who enjoys the simple things in life.

Character profile: Billy

Billy is a dirty, scruffy fly who has nothing better to do than annoy the other insects he finds in his travels. He was born in an old banana and to distinguish himself from his other hundreds of brothers and sisters he terrorizes other insects for his amusement.

Although very noisy and obnoxious, he is also very cunning and takes great delight in scaring anyone who he manages to sneak up on. 

Being less than two days old, Billy is trying to cover as much distance and cause as much distress as possible because he has only eight days to live.

He is trying to pack as much in as he possibly can and relishes the pitfalls of other insects that die before him.

Character profile: Spi Spi

Observant in nature and likes to watch the sun rise over the grass-line and ponder what lies beyond the field. 

Sometimes she hears strange stories from things out in the ‘beyond’ and she likes to weave these stories into her webs.

Spi Spi, is very aware that being a spider also comes with the sigma of many insects in the field being scared of her because she needs to eat insects to survive and it makes her very lonely as they avoid her.

Though she only eats when she’s hungry and makes sure she only eats rude insects, thus ensuring that the field is a better place to live, Spi spi often tries to help the insects around her by solving their problems.

By helping the other insects around her she has won many friends and she, of course would never eat a friend.