After “How to Save a Knocked-Out Tooth”, the video team decided had another animation they wanted. It was still about teeth, but this one was about The Worst Foods for Your Teeth. We decided that we wanted to go for less clinical, and more fun so instead of just having a bunch of literal shots, we created a little cavity monster to make it more intersting.
While Knocked-Out Tooth was about in done in flash, I made one of my PPO’s (work-related goals) for the year to do an animation after teaching myself Toonboom’s animate pro. Well, there’s no time like the present, so Worst Foods was my first animation completed in animate pro from start to finish!
Like last time, the video team provided the script and I created the storyboards. From there we did the animatic followed by character and prop designs and backgrounds. A small wrench was thrown into production when the producer decided that the original voiceover wasn’t exciting enough, but luckily we were early enough where it only set us back about a day or two. The rigs were built and animation began which lasted about 3-4 weeks. We finished it up with compositing and the video team added the audio. It took a few months to go live since the program needed to be built, but it’s finally live!