Stop-Motion
Reflection
For this project, I worked with Marie. The hardest part of the whiteboard animation was coming up with an idea. The drawing part wasn't too bad because I had done it last year and I knew what to expect. I'm pretty happy with how the video turned out and I thought it was really cute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVf8aH-BeaU
For this project, I worked with Marie. The hardest part of the whiteboard animation was coming up with an idea. The drawing part wasn't too bad because I had done it last year and I knew what to expect. I'm pretty happy with how the video turned out and I thought it was really cute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVf8aH-BeaU
Illustration Friday
Clone Project
I didn't have many problems doing this project, since I did it last year. The only thing I had trouble with was coming up with different poses and positions to do. If I could re-do this project, I'd think of some new creative positions and change the sizes of the figures.
State Fair Design
Originally, my design was more cartoon-ish and there weren't many details. I decided that I didn't like it after about 3 hours of work, so I restarted it, and this is how it turned out. I'm pretty happy with how it looked, but I didn't love the theme of "livestock" because I didn't feel like it portrayed the State Fair well. If I design a poster next year, I think that I'll add more color and do a different landscape.
Patterns
I actually enjoyed creating this project this year. Last year, I wasn't as good with Photoshop and it took me a long time to create the design. But this year, my "theme" was Summer and I liked the pastel look. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
Cat Turn-Around
I had a better idea for this project, but I didn't have enough time to finish doing what I wanted. I'm still happy with how it turned out, though. I think it was cute and this was the cat that I always drew, before I got into more realistic pieces. Next time, I'd probably do something a little bit more style.
Monster
For this project, I used a photo I took during hurricane Dorian right when the lightning struck. I was going to do a bit more with lighting on the girl, but I didn't know how to make her blend in with the background while still showing some feature. I don't really liked how this turned out and if I could re-do this project, I'd look up videos and tips on how to draw light from different angles.
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Product Design
As seen on the left, my product is stress mints! They're little soft mints that have a soothing effect and can calm down stress. It is not recommended to only use these if you have bad anxiety or other mental illnesses. The mints are just a placebo and can create temporary relief. To the right, I created the best Nutrition Label I could for a mint. Each mint contains 1g of sugar and 4 calories.
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New Creatures
For this project, I combined the body of a raccoon with the ears of a koala and the eyes of a bush baby. I enjoyed this project more than I did last year because I think it turned out better. It took me a while to blend the ears into the fur of the raccoon, but I don't think they turned out too bad. The eyes look really realistic, but a raccoons real eyes are a lot darker and a little bit smaller.
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Animation Final
Final Reflection
When I started this project, I originally had a slightly complex story. I knew that I wanted to start the animation with clouds parting and the “camera” zooming in on a tropical island, but I didn’t know where to go from there. I decided to add a bird at the beginning so the “cloud-parting” wasn’t too boring. Then I would have two girls on the island, playing with a coconut, but the bird from earlier squawks and scares them into dropping the coconut. Then I had the coconut roll down a hill and land in the water.
However, as I started my animation, I realized that I was moving way too slowly and wouldn’t be able to fit my entire plot into 600 frames. I decided to shorten my story to just the bird flying then a coconut falling out of a tree into the water. I made my animation with Adobe Photoshop AND….
The most difficult part of this project was just finding the time. In a lot of my other classes I had projects to do too and work. It was really difficult and stressful to finish all 600 frames and all the other work that had to be done because I wanted my animation to look good. However, after about 150 frames, I slowly started to come a little bit sloppier to make sure that I had time to finish.
I found the first 100 scenes the most successful because they were fairly simple. I copied and pasted all my layers into a new file each time and moved each layer individually. I think that was the easiest part of the entire project and I think the frames turned out pretty good.
I prioritized my time pretty well, I think. Whenever I had time between other school projects, I added a few more frames or worked on this Final Exam. I was pretty time efficient; 100 frames every 6 hours, give or take. I spent the most time just moving the layers around in each frame and creating my new backgrounds or new characters that were introduced to my story.
I used most of the principles of animation in my animation. For example, I used Squash and Stretch when the coconut fell from the tree into the water, Staging, by keeping the coconut in the center of the frame when it was in the water, and Slow-in and Slow-out, like when the clouds parted in the beginning of the animation. I also used Secondary Action, so when my bird was flying across the screen, the clouds in the background were still moving. Timing; for the splash when the coconut hits the water and Exaggeration, like the vibrant colors of the parrot.
I think I learned that I definitely don’t want to be an animator. I already knew I didn’t like animation but this project was so difficult for me and drawing and staring at (almost) the same drawing for a solid 6 hours straight was driving me crazy. I have a lot more respect for animators who draw frame-by-frame, but I would never want to make a career out of it.
When I started this project, I originally had a slightly complex story. I knew that I wanted to start the animation with clouds parting and the “camera” zooming in on a tropical island, but I didn’t know where to go from there. I decided to add a bird at the beginning so the “cloud-parting” wasn’t too boring. Then I would have two girls on the island, playing with a coconut, but the bird from earlier squawks and scares them into dropping the coconut. Then I had the coconut roll down a hill and land in the water.
However, as I started my animation, I realized that I was moving way too slowly and wouldn’t be able to fit my entire plot into 600 frames. I decided to shorten my story to just the bird flying then a coconut falling out of a tree into the water. I made my animation with Adobe Photoshop AND….
The most difficult part of this project was just finding the time. In a lot of my other classes I had projects to do too and work. It was really difficult and stressful to finish all 600 frames and all the other work that had to be done because I wanted my animation to look good. However, after about 150 frames, I slowly started to come a little bit sloppier to make sure that I had time to finish.
I found the first 100 scenes the most successful because they were fairly simple. I copied and pasted all my layers into a new file each time and moved each layer individually. I think that was the easiest part of the entire project and I think the frames turned out pretty good.
I prioritized my time pretty well, I think. Whenever I had time between other school projects, I added a few more frames or worked on this Final Exam. I was pretty time efficient; 100 frames every 6 hours, give or take. I spent the most time just moving the layers around in each frame and creating my new backgrounds or new characters that were introduced to my story.
I used most of the principles of animation in my animation. For example, I used Squash and Stretch when the coconut fell from the tree into the water, Staging, by keeping the coconut in the center of the frame when it was in the water, and Slow-in and Slow-out, like when the clouds parted in the beginning of the animation. I also used Secondary Action, so when my bird was flying across the screen, the clouds in the background were still moving. Timing; for the splash when the coconut hits the water and Exaggeration, like the vibrant colors of the parrot.
I think I learned that I definitely don’t want to be an animator. I already knew I didn’t like animation but this project was so difficult for me and drawing and staring at (almost) the same drawing for a solid 6 hours straight was driving me crazy. I have a lot more respect for animators who draw frame-by-frame, but I would never want to make a career out of it.
Finished video:
It took me so long to figure out how to save the After Affects file an a movie, and even then, it wouldn't open on my computer unless I had QuickTime. I ended up uploading the video to YouTube, then spent another 15 minutes trying to save the video to my phone so I could add audio from an app. I took a screen recording of the YouTube video and added audio over it, then uploaded that back to YouTube. Unfortunately the quality isn't that great, but it took me so long that I honestly am just glad to be done with it.
It took me so long to figure out how to save the After Affects file an a movie, and even then, it wouldn't open on my computer unless I had QuickTime. I ended up uploading the video to YouTube, then spent another 15 minutes trying to save the video to my phone so I could add audio from an app. I took a screen recording of the YouTube video and added audio over it, then uploaded that back to YouTube. Unfortunately the quality isn't that great, but it took me so long that I honestly am just glad to be done with it.