Monday, 12 January 2015

Module Review

This Module was a really interesting one for me. It started off  slow, since I didn't have many ideas on how to do this project. Most of my ideas i came up with on the fly and then i just ran with it. That's how I came up with my main character, the jars of wind, and even using wind itself i basically decided on a metaphoric coin flip. I'm really glad about how it turned out though, because I did put in a ton of work for this to turn out the way it did.
During the start of this project, truthfully I was concerned with other pieces I was doing, most of the planning and pre-production I did was an afterthought at most. I chose my main character out of my various character sketches i come up with regularly. It was just a picture of an old man with a spherical body. After I started making little parts of his house, some utensils, I drew the jars of wind I used in the animation. I barely put together a storyboard that i used in my first crit presentation, along with the character design i made and the various bits of assets i made.
Making the Animation itself was probably the hardest part. I started off doing well, I finished 44 frames my first workday along with 3 backgrounds. It wasn't until Winter Break that I started having troubles. I didn't get my lightbox and animation paper until the week of Christmas, and my parents decided by themselves that I wasn't going to need a scanner, so i was out of luck until the last week of winter break. I made headway on the Monday of the last week, doing 50 frames a day was going to be my plan for that week, and then id scan all of it in in my dads office building. Basically that entire week consisted of me sitting in a room for several hours drawing for 5 days. I managed to get all of my frames done the night before my flight, but I wasn't able to scan them in, so i was going to do that the day i got in to Leeds. Then I accidentally slept for 5 hours, which was the worst possible thing that could happen.
My post production stages were probably the most stressful part of this project. I had to stay up 26 hours to finish the final edit of my animation. I got sick afterwards so I only went to school to turn it in and then I slept it off. I also did all of the sound design myself because I didn't have an internet connection to get the assets online.
This project overall was probably the hardest experience I've ever had doing a school assignment before. Nevertheless I'm extremely proud about how it turned out, and I'm looking forward to my next animation. Hopefully I'll be able to get it done without so much stress next time.

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