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The final outcome of our group animation

How did my group project go?

Well it went well considering the fact that 2 members left on the bases that we were moving at a slow pace. I have to admit, in the first 3 weeks of this project my group was moving extremely slow. We did not have a solid planning as to how the animation would play out. So we all suggested in coming up with ideas whether it be a storyboard or a short ruff animation to get the pre-production stages out the way. In the fourth week, one of our member's which was Ben, came up with a great idea so we followed his direction to what the animation should be. Ben acted like a proper director so much so, that when i had thought i had done a good job on the scenes he assigned to me, he asked me to change or modify it a bit more. He did not just accept it like that, he knew what he wanted and what i came up with was not what he had envisioned. So after hearing his responses, i knew i will be hearing the same within a professional animation company so i never took it personal.

The programme i had used on this was adobe after effects. The first time i saw this beast of a software, i nearly panicked because the inter-face looked kind of complicated. But after watching Mike's tutorial as to how we should construct our project within this software, my fear level went down and now confidence crept in and i got accustom to it within 5 weeks. One of the tools which i found really interesting was the puppet tool which saved me alot of time. If i hadn't of used the puppet tool, i would of had to draw out frame by frame of the animation which would of taken me alot more longer.

The end result is ok.. Its not great and it isn't rubbish but it is ok on the level that we are currently on.

These sound animation videos gave me a clear understanding of what this brief really was. This will help me to formulate my own scenes for my animation. I'm hoping i could do the scenes which are assigned to me justice, so i'm going to try my best.

This was the ending title for what i had done for the group stating who we are.

This is the sky background for the animation.

These pictures are designs for the animation which i had done in photoshop. You will see the end result of it in our final animation because the file was far too big to upload on this. But its going to be compressed when we all hand in our scene clips for the collection for our overall animation.

This will be in the final animation for my one of my scenes.

NOT IN THE FINAL PIECE

This piece was rejected because our director did not like the way of the movement of the Moon's clarinet when assigning to the tempo of the instrumental.. So this scene what i first did will not be in the end product.