'Unfortunate Deaths' Animations:

I finished up the four other keyframe animations, all of which vary in degrees of detail or quality. 

(Below) A video example of one of the keyframe animations, 'A is for Alan, crushed by a bell'. 

(Below) Screenshots from the workspace used to make these keyframe animations.

(Above) 'A is for Alice, who ended up armless'

(Above) 'A is for Aaron, swallowed my darkness'

(Above) 'A is for Anna, who drank too much Absinthe' 

(Above) 'A is for Aiden, whose brain made an absence'

'Unfortunate Deaths' Animations:

Once the story-boarding was completed and the characters/deaths were finalised, I began work on the keyframing animation that would go on to help with the final animations later-on.
These animations are very simplistic and serve as a template to work from, so the main thing that mattered was the posing and how the background might look like.

(Below) Screenshots from two of the keyframe animations created so far, 'A is for Amy, who fell down a well' and 'A is for Alan, crushed by a bell', which were both made using ToonBoom Pro 2 & 3. 

'Unfortunate Deaths' Animations: 

After further brainstorming and discussion with friends and tutors, I eventually decided that I'd create unique situations / characters / deaths for my animations, as opposed to using the pre-existing situations. 
I decided that the animations I'd create would work with names only beginning with the letter 'A' and be rhythmically-paired with each other (1 rhymes with 2, 3 rhymes with 4, etc.). 
In terms of artistic influence, I would say that the work of Patrick McHale (creator of 'Over the Garden Wall') impacted this project's style the greatest. Primarily due to me watching the series recently and enjoying it greatly. 

(Below) Several storyboards created, that show 6 planned characters/deaths for this project.

'Unfortunate Deaths' Animations: 

I've wanted to create animated versions of my 'Unfortunate Deaths' illustrations (from my first and second years of the course) for quite a while.

My idea for animations based on these illustrations is to have roughly 6 short animations, each roughly 5/6 seconds-long. There would be a challenge with this, to design a scenario that didn't feel too rushed or overly-simplistic. 

The actual style I wanted to use with this, would most likely be similar too the illustrations; in that they would be fairly stylised.

(Below) Sketches of ideas based around two of the 'Unfortunate Death' illustrations I created for previous years.

The first plan I had was to have each short animation start with a fairly plain or ordinary background/scene, then have the camera pan across to the animation’s character in a deadly situation.