My animation has gone through many changes and developments throughout this course, all of which have helped me create my final 120 second animation sequence.
Between the first assessment and the second assessment, the main change that I made to my animation was to switch from using Flash to After Effects to create my animation. I feel that After Effects was the easier application to use to create a more detailed and professional looking animation sequence.
While I was using Flash for my first assessment, I was using block colours for my characters and backgrounds, which limited the amount of depth and detail I could give to these elements. I also found it difficult to animate accurately, and feel that Flash would be a good programme to use for more basic animations.
Once I switched to animating in After Effects, I was able to use repeated scenes and animations throughout my main sequence, which were also still fairly detailed. I was also able to use lighting and shadow, which I enjoyed experimenting with and creating interesting effects. One of the most useful parts of animating using After Effects was that I was able to use character rigging to animate my characters easel and accurately, which saved me a lot of time in the long run.
Originally I was planing on recording voices and conversation for my characters, however I soon realised that this would take up a lot of time, both to record the sounds and the time it would add on to my animated sequence as a whole.
Instead I decided to only use a couple of short voiced pauses, such as sighs and laughs, from a creative commons free sound website. Not only did this speed up my working process, but I feel it also simplified my animation a little, and made it easier for the audience to engage with my characters and their actions.
Tuesday 6 January 2015
250 Word Project Description
Project
Description.
‘Not
A Fairytale’
The title of my 120 second animation is
‘Not A Fairytale’. I have based my short animation on the well-known fairytale
of ‘Rapunzel’, however I have given it a more modern and alternative twist. The
inspiration for this twist was to set the story in the present day, where a
technology driven lifestyle is prevalent, and for it to relate to a teenager’s
everyday life rather than an old folk tale, hence the title ‘Not A Fairytale’. This
presents to the viewers “ways in which established image cultures might be challenged
or configured” (Wells, 2008).
I have created my animation using hand
drawings, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere Pro, which
effectively combines analogue and digital techniques.
My animation is mainly 2D vector based,
however I have used photographic backgrounds and texture to provide depth to my
2D characters and more detail to their surroundings, while also using lights
and shadows. This style has been inspired by the popular cartoon ‘The Amazing World
of Gumball’, and also relates to the modern fairytale theme of my animation: life
has become increasingly more complex than that of typical fairytales, and my
animation focuses more on the personality of the characters rather than their
role in the typical fairytale scenario. I feel that my style of animation also
has quite a modern feel to it, which reflects how I have adapted the fairytale
of ‘Rapunzel’ to contemporary society, and to relate to present day audiences.
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