Combining and Rotating Layers

Next we wanted to animated all the villagers and zombie individually before putting them into the final scene. This is so they could all have their own animation, therefore each figure was doing their own movements and had their own personality.

Some figures have larger 'roles' or movements aka one zombie has a leg fall off and he then falls over and cannot walk and chase away the people. Where some zombies and people only move slightly so there is not too much going on in the scene or the viewer won't know where to look.

To make the figures move we first combined all the layers to organise the composition and layered them up correctly. Then we moved their anchor points on each layer so they were in the right spots on the body aka where the joints were on an actual body as the layers were all separated by body parts so we could move it like a person. 

First we tried out the puppet tool but decided that it wasn't needed as we had already separated the layers by body part and the puppet tool distorted images which we didn't want as we were working with collage.

So we rotated certain layers to make an arm, leg, head or whole body move which worked perfectly with the aesthetic we were aiming for.