In the begining when a animation was requied for the second semester I wasn't looking forward to using After Effects, i have always found trouble trying to create the most simplest of tasks and then somehow ruining what i have created and not achiving my goal. The planning weeks where as follows, i wanted to try something different and try to avoid using After Effects then the idea came to me- Stop Start animation, that was something that i wanted to try out for myself i haven't done anything like this before and with every frame that i need i would just need to take a picture of the object in question and move it every so often, one week i was busy researching for inspiration and i came across three videos on Viemo Click Here To View Post , The first video that i found interesting was a short animation with a tree running away from a tree cutter which he looked like he appeared from out of a horror film, which i found amusing and so did the rest of the group. So this idea and the other two that are presented within the post are all closely linked up within my production- I wanted a storybook looking animation but i didn't want it to look too much like the "Swing" example that i have posted but this is where the last video within the post came in, Cellegratonia brings out the choppy jerky side of the animation and if i added this then i wouldn't need to stress too much on getting everything straight and smooth I was pleased that i picked these three ideas and translate them into my production. The next few weeks after talking about what our ideas where going to be i disided to invest in a sketch/notepad and a few colouring pencils once done i posted my work and ideas in progress up on this blog Semester B- Drawings, i.e storyboards , Finished Storyboards..What's Next? Begining to be quite pleased with what i have created it was soon time to start putting these ideas onto more paper and turn them into props for the final production, the prop making did take me a week or two to draw, colour and cut out but at this time it was almost coming to the end of term and somehow i thought the due in date was due on the last lesson before Easter so the Monday and Tuesday before that date i was working extremely hard to finish and photogragh the production before the morning approched and during the lesson on that day i was busy editing my animation and before i continue these are the finished drawings and props that i was using. Work In Progress Part2- Almost Done , Semester B Work In Progress within the middle of the lesson and to my relief the files where not due on this date, so with time to think and breathe i could check and see if i felt that my work was worth handing in on the due date Semester B 13/03/2013 Workshop . Now we come today and this post, i wasn't too sure what was the right format to put the animation on luckly i found a online converter http://www.online-convert.com/ i changed my orginal .wmv file to a .mov file and if i didn't do this the file would of been unreadable and wouldn't be used in the main production.
If i could do this project again what differences would i create? If i had slightly more time and not panicked about the due in date i would of taken a bit more time at taking pictures and tried to fix something with the lighting so everything didn't look so dull or dark also with the time i could of painted the backdrops instead of colouring them in with pencil i think that would of looked better from the camera's eye and made it more easy to see.
If i could do this project again what differences would i create? If i had slightly more time and not panicked about the due in date i would of taken a bit more time at taking pictures and tried to fix something with the lighting so everything didn't look so dull or dark also with the time i could of painted the backdrops instead of colouring them in with pencil i think that would of looked better from the camera's eye and made it more easy to see.
