Responsive: constructing the final composition

Once all the animation was completed the last thing to be done in after effects was to put it all together, which was quite a task. I started by setting up the entire background so all the sections where easily accessible for quick changes, which often meant decompressing pre-comps. I then used the composition flowchart to navigate between everything. Most of the animation could be placed on top of the moving background however somethings like the roller coaster needed to be placed deeper in the flowchart of comps. The most difficult part of putting it all together was working out the camera timings, I tried to stick to the animatic as best as I could however some of the transition times where not realistic. I added a lot of easing with the camera to make the movements more natural and less jarring. I worked through the entire animation scene by scene adding all the character animation first then adding additional assets (fish and moving background pieces). The layout of the background and the animation being rendered how it was made this task much smoother. One minor problem I encountered was due to the large size of the background and all the files my mac struggled when working with all of it, I'm sure there must be some settings which ignores of things off screen to cut down ram preview times.

I put together my first edit then sent it though to the others for feedback so I could fix any mistakes I missed or change anything people thought could be better. I wanted to do it this way so it only needed to be rendered once more and didn't need altering once it went into the sound edit.