Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Animation essay


For the recent college project for Steve we had to create a short animation film and would be graded for it. This essay is for the feedback we got for the animation.
The feedback that we received was very good and positive and a lot of people liked the music we included in the animation and said it worked really well with the story.
A lot of hard work went into the spider which we used for our other animation film so we kept the spider in the animation. A girl in my class who hates spiders found the spider quiet scary and terrifying but thought it was very effective. A lot of people also liked our clay person. I always found it's mouth to look like something from the film Predator, but people liked it.

I think we worked well as a group but I did feel that as a group that at times we could probably have worked a bit better together. I think because of FMP we left the animation to the last minute, which was a bad idea because we are coming up to the end of the course. This means that there is even more pressure on us all and I think at times people took over certain areas of the animation and did not let other people have any control and do what they wanted to do.
Sedtin could be demanding at times and a little annoying hence why I didn't want her in the group. The reason I found Sedtin annoying at times was because she took control of the whole project and didn't let anyone take part. She would also speak over people so I found that at times it was best to leave her to it before I got too annoyed with her.
Abi worked really well and was very strong throughout the whole task and in fact she was the most helpful and creative when filming but she could also be annoying as we all know Abi is very head strong but also hard working.
Will was ok but moaned a lot but I had a good time filming with him and also we had a laugh. I cant really think of a negative comment, in fact I don't think that there were any negatives as everyone had fun making it even though the process was really long. The hard work was definitely worth it as we got a good grade for it.
The fact that people took over certain areas of the animation and did not let other people have any control and do what they wanted to do would be the only thing I would change about our animation work.

To make the animation, we got clay models and started to build them together similar to Wallace and Gromit. Everything started to come together and I helped to build the spider's legs and also to build the body shape of the spider and I also created the legs for our human in the animation and it all looked very good and professional.

The way we animated the project was that we got a tripod which we never ended up using because our whole animation was handheld. We then got a chair and sat down right by the table and focused our shots moving around the table as we went along. Every time we took a photo we would take five photos for the shot. In the end we had around 350 photos so we had enough footage. When we came to editing we put everything in place and we didn't need to cut anything down and we all put in the sound effects together.  
 

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