Animation: adding text

 I have discussed the possibility of there being text in my animation somewhere on the screen. At first I had in mind those yellow subtitles that appear in movies. I discussed it with my tutor and we both agreed that adding a handwriting notes would connect the animation to the posters even more and I really like the idea of creating that slight connection. 

I did not want to create a note on every scene, because then the viewer would only be reading and not actually watching the movie. I decided to place only 4 notes that would explain a storyline very briefly for the viewer. I created those notes in OpenToonz and added them sort of like a layer to my frames. I put it as a layer on top of of the already existing layers with some text that I wrote by hand. 

I tried to add the notes in the places on screen where they would not cover too much of the drawings I worked hard on. I really like the fact that they are strictly connected with the posters because I wanted the posters and the animation to have connections, but I did not want to create posters that just look like advertisement posters for my animation. I wanted a full campaign. As I have mentioned in my post on Samaritans posters, I liked that there were videos to go with each poster. I do not have a video for each poster, but there is a video summing up all of them and I think that is a great connection. 

Here is the animation with the notes I have added. I think it looks really good and I made sure they are on the screen for a good amount of time. I think it is possible to read all of them, so that's good. 

Now for the 2D work I only need to add sounds and music and create credits at the end. I think I am on the right track to completing it on time.