In this scene there is a small passage of time from Marcus' first day of school. Marcus is walking back to his Grandmother's apartment when he is confronted by a couple of older, neighborhood boys. One of the boys trips him and he hesitates as he gets back up to collect himself.
The feeling I hope to capture is that Marcus doesn't really fit in anywhere. He's different from the kids at the school he's bused to and different form the kids in his own neighborhood. This will ultimately lead Marcus to find solace in his own imagined place of comfort. The place where angels meet.
As with the previous scenes, I provided Jeremy with a set of instructions for the animations. I created the two thugs in Fuse and gave Marcus some pants!
In this case, I didn't create a street scene in Unity, but rather sent Sean a bunch of assets for him to build a setting. However, I had him provide Jeremy with a basic model of the environment. This street scene will also be used later in the story, but as a different location. So I had Sean essentially create two sides of the street. One side being an upscale Santa Monica-like area and the other being an older, rougher street.
Jeremy did his first pass at animating the bully scene yesterday. Although this is a very early animatic, there are a number of issues with the basic movements of the characters and the timing of the scene. Jeremy is still working to make the characters more fluid and natural.