Animating characters stage 2

My second scene was the boy catching the ball kicked by the Grandpa and this scene was set up nicely from the ending of my Grandpa scene. my ball came from the camera so it gave the image of the camera being the ball when changing scenes, i thought this to be rather a subtle transation. My boy had a lot more action since i had to make him jump up to catch the ball then land again but my biggest worry was how i was going to make it flow into my next scene and i experimented and came aross the idea of having smoke carry my charcters off into the next scene, it was smooth and quite nicely done the effect i got was great since i made the smoke travel up my boy and you was able to see his body disappear before his head.


i had to create the background for both of my football scenes as one, i created a contrast of colours which worked in harmony with eachother for a calm environment which wouldnt take the focus off my characters but worked well with them, i also animated each cloud and the opacity and size of them so some looked closer than others, i think it worked nicely.