REFECTIVE BLOG
For my reflective blog i'll be posting things i've done for my current in progress project and things I do or have done in my spare time, also things i'm interested in or things that catch my eye.
My Final Piece
My animation ended up 40 seconds long, I think it does reflect my three words a lot better than the first storyboard would have. The fact that I've took the sunshine out of the animation (As it was originally on the storyboard) I think makes it fit more with the three words I've chosen at the beginning of my blog.
My three words being Surreal, Mesmerising and hypnotic. I think this is surreal because it could be something you dream about, the eyes of the mushrooms and the music give it a hypnotic feel in my opinion and it's mesmerising to watch because it's pretty odd.
I planned to have an ending title on the animation like I had at the beginning, but had a severe problem with after effects that i just didn't know how to tackle so it does look a little odd at the end but only for a brief moment. When I'd saved this file I watched and realised the end was like that. So i fixed it on after effects, when i tried to render in after effects it said that a file was corrupted somewhere on the animation and that I couldn't save it, as time was really growing short i really did not have time to do the entire thing onto after effects again as this was the only way I could think of sorting it out.
I am happy with my animation but I do feel it could have been a little better. But I don't reckon it's too bad for my first real length animation. :) On after effects the frames saved at 29.97 frames per second.
Adobe after effects file screen shots.
Here it shows you every file i've loaded and put into after effects, I'm sure there were simpler way's i could have used this programme but i found it quite hard to figure out at points even with the tutorials. These screen shots show you from frame 1 all the way to the last frame 353. You can see where i've had to repeat frames on these screen shots by looking at the frame numbers, i've also done things like reverse the frames for like when the mushroom bobs back up and for the grin.
Front title
I've decided to add a front title to my animation, I drew most of it on photoshop with the graphics tablet. Just to introduce the animation.
Caterpillar!
Here's my caterpillar character drawn first I then scanned it in on to photoshop and then below coloured it in on photoshop. I love the outcome.
All I have done for these frames are move the caterpillar along gradually in photoshop, obviously these are just a select few of the 142 to get the caterpillar across the screen, As i've made the caterpillar move I've made the mushrooms eyes follow it.
The grinning bit of the mushrooms.
I did the grin of the mushrooms the same way i did the bobbing up and down of the mushrooms. But i didn't have to draw the whole mushroom because I could just scan these in and put them on photoshop on the still frames of the mushrooms and so on.
Here are a few below to demonstrate what I did.
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