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These are all of my animations I have been doing at my time in uni, honestly I prefer doing illustration much more as being a concept artist or a comic book artist is much more appealing to me. But animation has helped me through super hard times and I hope to be able to do the same with my animation, I want to at least help somebody
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All of my animations shall be dated and have a little reflection on what I found to be challenging and what I found to be fun and just an overall what I did !!!
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── .✦ WEEK 1/2 (´｡• ᵕ •｡`)
Trimester 1
These are my bouncing ball animations that I did in week 1/2 for trimester 1. I decided to add in the planning stage that I did as well. For these animation I found the first one that was just slime to be really easy, it was simple just a ball bouncing. Though I did finding the background difficult one I had animated the slime, I a must not very good with background design at all but I am planning on getting better.
For the other bouncing ball animation I found it super difficult, I started off too ambitious and then I had to re do the entire animation after doing it for about 2 hours but to be honest I think was a super good learning curve to not set myself too much work and know my own limits. Hopefully as I continue with my university course I will be able to do much longer and more advanced animations. But for the second ball animation I like the simple story that I lead with. I am just overall super proud of it, I know in the fire I will make something better and think this is bad but for now its something that I really, really love!!
── .✦ WEEK 3 o(≧▽≦)o
Here is the work I have done for week 3 this time I am uploading it from wee three and not the end of week 4 once I have finished this task (it is because I now have an understanding of what my work needs to be!). This task is to create a wave animation an oh my god, it is incredibly hard. I thought that doing the basics of animation would be that difficult but this is super duper difficult. I have never really paid attention to the wave animation before you see in animation, honestly I thought it was something that you did with the movement of the character not something would have to be on a completely different layer to understand.
Though even though I found it super hard I am proud of what I have been able to create. I generally found this to be so much more harder than the ball bouncing but after looking into videos and making sure I was paying attention in class I didn' find it the worst. Now I thought once I had got the basics down applying it to a different part of a character would be simple. NO I was terribly wrong. It was even harder to understand how something would wave on its side. I did constantly get confirmation on the characters application to the wave to make sure it looked good and like a wave. I am proud of it because I feel like it captures that whip feelings tails have.
I think in the future when doing something like animating a tail I need to look at references many of my characters sort of have something like that Think what could of made my life so much more easier in doing this would be looking a a cat tail reference as that's the feeling I wanted. But what I have created I am proud of I just know what I got to do in the future.
── .✦ WEEK 4 (o^ ^o)
Here is the animation that Iwas working on last week, as you can see I didn't do a background nor did I shade it all I did was flat colour it. That is because I felt miserable with the outcome looking at it this week I knew I could do better so instead of completely giving up and not doing the work and just settling with the one I did like I decided I would have another go Now of course I didn't think I would of been able to produce something like what I have produced but its just I felt so much more happier with the outcome of the new one so I managed to really make it look good in the last lesson day of this week and honestly out of everything I have animated so far in my animation career this is something that I super duper proud of as I feel like I ave managed to really understand not only hoot use a different program than I am used to but I also managed to show my skills perfectly and I love the animation I have been able to create.
Now this is the new animation I managed to create I really, really like it and the idea was just a worm on a fishing hook. Considering how long it took to do the last animation that I did I went in with a negative mindset realising that it might take me a whole day just to make sure that the animation is smooth enough and the wave cycle actually looked like a wave cycle. But I didn't have to do multiple practices because I was proud of what I managed to create in the first instance so I contained and once I had contained I just sort of fell Lin love with what I managed to create. Because I went in with a much simpler idea I was able to really focus on the wave movement and I felt like I managed to create the whip feeling I wanted with the tail animation but with this worm. I really like the drag I added the animation just feel so much more smoother and I love it quite alot. I am super glad that I retried as I think this shows off my skills much better. Sure I did find it hard to do the wave animation but after learning alot about it last week it just felt easier to create something I was ore happier with. I really like how at the begging I didn't just make it stationary I added the little string that the group of children hold o bounce around os you as a viewer knows what the focus is!! If you want to read more about this please go to my blogs !!! (WEEK 4 of course :D)
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Week 5 was doing a head turn I have too do it like normal for 2 weeks. This was out of everything I have done, it was even harder than the wave animation. I think it could have gone easier because it was super hard to do the first I deal that I had. I wanted to do my sona Celeste the space bunny.
She's like my favourite character I have to draw but she is quite detailed and also a bunny. Sure she is a humanoid but she's go long floppy ears a huge helmet and tubes as well as antenna and 4 eyes. She's is just white difficult but I went in with it wit ha completely positive mindset thinking that it was super easy, I mean I washed the teacher do it and everybody around me didn't seem like they where struggling, so. just went for it. I shouldn't, I mean I am still a learning animator I should have picked something easier t work with. I also just messed up the planning, I feel like maybe I could have made my first try go better if the planning I made wasn't so confusing and messy.
I really struggle with the planning, I think its because its just it had to made something 2d look like that It was 3d and it was super duper hard to understand how the head should look. The pathway that I made also didn't really make any sense for how a head would turn butI didn't really think about that untilI tried to line it and make sure that the planning was smoother. But even when the planning didn't work I still went with it. I still kept going I refused to give up I wanted to try and make sure I did it right the first try.
I am not really sure why I thought that doing it the fist try round would of been simpler than constantly planning and going back and fourth I mean if anything throughout the few weeks I have been animating at university the thingI learn it to go slowly and plan a lot. So the animation really didn't turn out great I was annoyed that I didn't think it all through and went in guns blazing but I mean I wanted to make sure I had at least something I liked so I quickly lined it all and I think the position in the frame also messed up just everything about this first try was awful, so I took my lunch break and tried again.
So this is what I managed to do after lunch. I took a break thinking about what to do next and just chilled with my friends having a completely different mindset Imanaged to think about how the head turn would move porously as at lunch time I was making sure I was paying atneion to how everyone was moving. I am really, really proud of what Imanaged to do, generally I am so happy I used a different character(s) of mine called James and Nexus. Jamie is the head turning character Nexus is the wired ball of light. I am so proud like really I thought I wasn't gonna be bale to do it but taking a break and this time making sure the planing I did talked to my teacher and asked for points on how to get better and just constantly checking in with people to make sure it looked good really helped. I managed to really got sucked into this animation and I eve managed to start colouring it but I will finish the colouring next week and hopefuly have a full animation I am super proud of !!
── .✦ WEEK 6 ₍₍⚞(˶˃ ꒳ ˂˶)⚟⁾⁾
Here is the completed animation. The animation that I worked on was the same one that I said I would finish this week and I well did. I actually didn't think I would finished it at all, I thought it would be unfinished or at least just flat coloured and not fully shaded. The shading I did I actually really like. I have always liked backgrounds that look pretty much like illustrations with moving characters over the top and I think I was able to actually achieve that look as the shading and everything doesn't change but the shading that is on the characters does. I just really like it, these characters that I have I have been wanting to create something with them for a while because I have a lot of ideas for the kind of story that I want to do for them and now I have finally made them move or just at least interact I feel more comfortable in making them into something bigger. I really like it, I mean I am not good at making sure animations look 3d and for the 3d work I would say that it doesn't look perfectly 3d or real enough to absorb you but I would say for someone who is trying to get better at it I am doing alright. I prefer things like comics and I think that it is giving off a more comic or story book vibe instead of a animation I like it :D stylisation is one of my favourite things to do.
I thought the colouring for this was going to be super hard but it really wasn't it was quite simple to understand and I have wanted to create a world that's all sandy, I did try out to make the world look sandy but it took the focus away from the head turn and made you focus more on the background and that's not what I want the focus is on the characters which I why the animation is more smoother background and not all grainy. If I where doing this physically in a comic or something I think I would prefer the background to be more grainy and all textured like to push the idea that its hot and sandy but I did what I could and I hope to be able to get better and learn more!!
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Animation project !!
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This is an animation audio project where I must make my own sound track with foley that links to my subject that I chose (out of a box so it was random!!)
It has to be about 40-50 seconds long and I must work by myself (this is no group project). I will be working on this project from week 7 - week 12 (all the way up to the end of the first trimester !!)
WEEK 7
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So my first proper project that I have been set for animation. This isn't too long of a project so I am making sure that I am really working hard and having everything sorted out as soon as I possibly can too move onto the main part of the project which would be the sound track with an animation. Hopefully it is clear to see what prompt I chose, it was the prompt cafe. Now the first week (week 7) really wasn't too much in terms of work, just got to learn what the project is about see different examples of past projects as well as test out some of the recording equipment that I have to use for this project.
As this is my first week on the project I feel like I'm lacking in work to talk about but I sort of didn't really do anything very practical. Next week I hope to start at least planning characters/settings/the sounds. Even though I have a lack of work for the first week for the project I still used my time well (well at least I think I did) I did mind map to figure out exactly try what to do. This mind map that I made I made after I wrote about my blog for week 7 becauseI started generating ideas from the blog I was doing and I decided to not go too in-depth because well I want to explain what I was thinking about in the right section.
Originally I just wanted to do the most basic thing just a cafe in its self or someone being nervous and focusing on the sounds around them even if they are ordering a rink or something. But when I stumbled across th thought pf different perspectives it was over for me. I know thought the project and my first trimester I still haven't really figured out how to too slow down we create an animation with out stressing and getting it wrong the first few times but I don't particularly mind if I do mess up because then I can learn and fix it, I would just prefer not to because I want to make sure I get this project done and nothing goes wrong (but that just isn't very likely)
So the plan is to do a sort pf entering a cafe scene and under the floor board of that cafe there is a smaller cafe underneath full of mice have little drinks and things just like you would at a cafe. I chose the idea because I think no only can it push me to work harder but I thought my other ideas felt too depressive (many of my works that I made in college always link back to me and this project I really want to try and appeal to the masses and not just me as tats something that I do all the time I want to try out something new) But the mice I feel like brings a bit of comfy nature along with them and isn't sad at all!!. I am happy with the choice because when getting this prompt I have so many afferent ideas and I got a bit overwhelmed by my own thoughts but now I have chosen Cafe and have a vague Idea on what to do. I am ready to move onto the next stage which is sound recording.
FUN FACT the reason I went with a mouse cafe is... I love the film "The secret life of Arrietty" and It reminds me of that. I really like creating stories and a mouse cafe just fits the film inspiration and I feel like it is a good starting to a new adventure (not saying that this project will be taken further its just if I were too)
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THE BEGINNING ๋࣭⭑
PRACTICE SOUNDS ｡𖦹°‧
As I said above I learn how to use the recording equipment. This was super fun I paired up with a friend and we just went around recording things in the uni. I will say that the was actually quite har to find a mix of sounds because the uni only had so much too offer considering I didn't have anything with me but like my hands an random things we found on the floor. But overall it was a fun practice and I am so glad that I got to do this as I was the able to start recording my other sounds for my actual project on the weekend of week 7 as I got given a zoom recorder to borrow!!
These sounds pretty much where all made but stamping on different floors kicking thins as well as one point I found a brick so I threw that at the floor and used it to make different sounds.
They all are not very long considering this was a practice but even if I do end up using some of the sounds I recorded here then I can just add the multiple times. That's the joy of editing it doesn't have to be like a reallllllyyy long sound use multiple different short ones or the same on over and over again.
With these sounds I actually did 95 sounds but I am not adding 95 different buttons that are for sounds that some of them are just us giggling and also these are not my project sounds so I just wanted to give an example. (even with my project sounds I record I am not going to upload everything because my website will start lagging)
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PROJECT SOUNDS ꩜ .ᐟ
So.. As I said I managed to score my own reorder over the weekend. During the weekend I literally just recorded sounds pretty much. It was super fun as I wasn't by myself I did it with the help of my boyfriend. (All he did was hit things on other things for me) I took a screenshot of a lot of the sounds that I have and that isn't even all of them. I also have added some of the sounds as examples. Iended up with around 83 sounds and I may still need more for the project. I am thinking already after I went through these to make sure they recorded right that I need like a whooshing?? sound for the transition of the normal car to the mouse cafe. I am still a bit lost on weather I want to do that. (So there 2 cafes) I might just show a little mouse cafe but even with that I would like to show that maybe its raining outside and this mouse comes in from the rain (and I am thinking the cafe is in a sort of barrel on a farm??) and then it looks around seeing all of the different sounds and things in th cafe.
I am thinking that is a more better idea because welll.. I can include the other views I thought of in the planning bit with the mind map.. how I view the cafe.
It could be a mose that represents me or someone else who just struggles with alot of different noises in one space. Its really hard to explain the relationship I haveth cafes and I want to be ablate showcase that through this that I love them but they sometimes don't love me back because of sounds, lights and choices.
Some of the sounds that I recorded me and boyfriend laugh but I am thinking even though technically they are messed up sounds I could use the laughing for background ambience to show the mice having a good time. As well asI am thinking if I go through the noises I recorded in the practice maybe there are noses I could use for rain anyway..? I am not sure weather I want it to be rainy or wether Want to focus to just be on the cafe sounds. I could od something like its all quite until the mouse goes into the cafe.
I mean I still like the idea of the underground cafe so the I start actually planning the sequence I have too do I will make a choice (so far it seems like I should do the first idea as that's whta I based my sounds off of)
I have also realised when I do concept art I am gonna have to make a moodpboard of different mouses, kind of odd but that's fine.
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WEEK 8
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My idea visualised ᝰ.ᐟ
Week 8! I reallyyyyy didn't think I was going to get that much done this week considering I thought I was missing sounds I needed and I was indecisive about my final idea I am really happy with this animatic I created. Now the animatic isn't mandatory I did it literally because I couldn't visualise what everything would look like in my head.
Now this video that is adjacent to this text you may look at it and think why some of the images have different numbers/the numbers are not in order. Well that's because I realised things I made were too long. But that is not what I want to talk about here.
I am so proud of the way all of my sounds work together of course, it isn't the greatest but foley and just putting everything together is a really achieving feeling everything works well together and even though their is a small amount of images that move in this animatic I feel as thouhg as a viewer you understand what the sounds are ment to be.
I gernally worked on this for so long (some would say 4 hours) and even though it is just an animatic it makes me feel much more confident to create the animation as I was (and still kind of am) worried that the sounds I have chosen and the way I am presenting the whole idea is going to be awful.
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The planning for the animatic!!٠࣪⭑
To create the animatic that I did above I first had to plan it. The deliverables mean I need to include 2 A4 of work and anything else so I did my story boards in my sketchbook to have the 2 physical A4's and I just did extra because I was indecisive on what my idea should be.
The first storyboard I did was just the idea I thought off it going down from the human area and showing this mouse doing things and being overwhelmed in a cafe. I thought when I made that storyboard that I wouldn't make anymore. I was so convinced that this idea would be the one, and there was no point exploring the other ideas I had in my head. But I did it anyway because I wanted too see if maybe a different idea would stand out to me.
The second story board I did, I did a completely different idea to any of the ideas I planned because I just thought it would be fun to see. It was based on this person having a pet mouse on their shoulder and going into a cafe and the mouse just getting overwhelmed by all of the sounds. I thought it was a cool idea and after I did this I thought maybe the first storyboard I did really isn't the idea I want to g for, if I think properly about it, I only have 40-50 seconds and maybe showing all of these different things in the first idea would one be too much to animate in the 6 weeks I have as well as I don't think everythingI wanted to include would fit into the time I have to stick too.
Now the third storyboard I did, I drew a star next to it because it was m favourite one after revising all of the other plans I had made, It took the first idea and the second idea and sort of combined them together, still showing all of the different sounds that are in the mouse cafe but the mice being just that bit annoyed or concerned./overhellemed by how loud the humans are above them. I liked it so much that I drew it again but just a bit better to be able to really understand what I want for my animation.
I am really glad that I explored different ideas because I think if I didn't I would have set my self a too difficult of a task and I would have struggled a lot and been stressed. Considering I have already encounter something that I really didn't think would happen at all but my phone broke this week. Luckily I had already uploaded these images onto my laptop but I now have found a propblem with the rest of my parts in this course how am I going to continue to upload everything?? I am not too sure at the moment and I am trying to find ways to fix this problem, so far I think I may have to get a camera from media services in uni or, I will have to get the people to take images for me then email them too me.
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Making the animatic ୭˚. ᵎᵎ
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When actually making the animatic, I did what I was told to do, make the sound track first. Now usually if I where going to do this I would of done all of the animation and drawings before I added the sound and I was told that, that is usually how everyone does it but my lecturer wanted us to really focus on the sound at the beginning of this project so I made the sound track first. Honestly I thought this was going to be really difficult but it proved to be really helpful. I relied that maybe not all of the frames I had planned I need because it has too fit in a certain amount of time. I realised that I just had too many frames, the thing I am doing doesn't need to be a narrative with a really complex or even a short story. It just needs to focus on the sound and making the sound track first was not only super fun because all of the sounds I recorded started to come together and it was really epic.
But it was generally so helpful to understand what this project actually is. It isn't a huge narrative or a story it is all audio based. I know that might seem stupid that I didn't understand this project in that way until I had make the sound track and even that the project is called "audio project" its just that I really get all wrapped up in making a story when I do work and I love world building so much and character design and all of that. I was so nervous when the project got announced because 6 weeks??? to develop a whole story and everything that's too short of time to do all of that.
Though I now understand that, that really isn't what I need to do. Which even though I enjoy making all of that stuff I still have other projects I have to work on and it would just be hard to do all of them at once without getting super stressed.
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Pinterest board that I made to help
So I had time this week to start concepts for this idea (I do these digitally on photoshop because it's easier to plan colours and save theta my hard drive without a phone!). I was told the concepts don't have to be too in-depth so once I did the starting drawings of what the mice should look like I drew out the ideas of what I want each character too look like. Usually I would do multiple different ideas to make sure I am really exploring my paths for the work but I only have 6 weeks and I NEED to have the animation done the concept art really isn't the main focus. So I made the research I did short and quick, and I am really happy with the concepts.
Of courseI dont need to have all of these characters but I wanted a different mouse for the different sounds at least, I didn't want them to be faceless background characters. Even though that this project is all based on the sound I think that the atmosphere wit drawing I should also focus on because if that doesn't fit the sound (and I want it to showcase all of the different sounds through different mice showing to my audience that anyone and everything is loud and all over the place but everyone does it so its okay !! and cafes really are the place to show all different types of people making all different noises.
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WEEK 9
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Concepts ᯓ★
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This week has been hectic. If I am going to be honest I have super stressed and just down right overwhelmed. So much work to do.. but I have been having fun with what I am making. As I did the mouse concepts last week I had to have concepts for the location to so I concepts and planned out both locations in my animation that I wanton make. I didn't have to have 2 locations as well as around 9 characters but I wanted to. it isn't this work that s stressing me out as much as as the illustration things I have to do simply because I keep getting it wrong.
Though for these concepts this is how I am viewing my universe I have made so it doesn't have to be amazing as well as these are concepts/plans to understand what the overall idea of my animation will look like. doing these concepts has helped alot like seriously thought I wasn't going to be able to do any of what I accomplish this week because I have been so overwehllemed but it proves that I am enjoying this course otherwise I wouldn't continue going !!
Something that I liked about doing the cents is that I could label the ones I liked and try out multiple different colour pallets. When it comes to colour pallets I am really not good at them at all and I am working toward getting better in the whole subject I am currently workington it with my illustration final project. but with that knowledge that I am slowly collecting I feel as though hit made me to really think about the colours because visuals are everything especially in animation :D
Final concept ideas
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What you are looking at is how I am planning my animation too look lie. considering I only have 3 weeks left of uni I am not going to expose it any further(well at least I think os anyway) its just because I need to thin about time frame and I NEED an animation to be done and have some form of sound track with that animation if I don't then.. I guess I will have nothing prove to people that HEY I CNS DO THE WOKR.
Anyways enough of that I really like the concept designs, if I had more time I would try out so many more things but this is one of my first final objects in uni and I certainly dont have like enough time and so I have too take shortcuts, quiick sketching and quick planning though even being quick I still like the way things have done. I know they could be better and I am still really trying har on the backgrounds, I just am bad at them and feel a bi heated. I like the world building but trying to figure out whatI mar up map would look like is hard oncifering physical msfspers arn't a thing anymore
I really like the colours I have used for this animation. I just feel free from the fact for pretty much a month I have had to work in many just complementary cololourts but I finally get be free fun a little while being allowed to use multipack different colours. Even thoughI will be using different colours that the ne I learnt with I am doing help others and hopefully they help me in return on who to use confusing soft ware.
The roughs!! ⋅˚₊‧ ଳ ‧₊˚ ⋅
So as well as the concepts for the animation I have to create I also managed to make and complete the rough animation from the animatic I made last week.
I did actually have another version but I cannot upload it because it crashed and didn't save so this is my second animaton that I have done the week because the first on I managed to gt half way through before it got completed wiped from my hard rive which I will say is quite soul crushing and it did make me a bit upset. bit I a glad that I restarted because this one is much clearer than the original one and I thought harder about timings and what things will move.
This animation is all done frame by frame because one its usually how I animate and 2 this whole animation is lead by th sound track that I made so I felt it was right to have the animation done frame by frame because I just animated how the sound I think would look and how it made me feel. Which is why some parts are slower or more smoother because I felt that it needed it to show that the sound that is playing is that action.
I am super proud of this animation, I did look at other people s and I think there's are so cool but eve though I thither may be better than mine =, I am am still really proud of it. I spent ages on it and I think it paid off well, it's wiersthat I can animate this just after doing a few weeks of learning. Itsorrt of doesn't feel like I made it.
Now I have done almost pretty much everything for this animation next comes what I would say is the hardest part which howl be the lining and colouring. After this week I have 3 weeks left and I really have to lock in and get it done. Also the animate was ,ongerthanthis animation. But when I was animating I felt that it didn't need to be obeyed as long as as it was and it was fine as 35 seconds because I actually don out that it doesn't need to be 40-50 it needs to be 30-40. I am quite happy with that because to line an almost minuet long animation in three weeks would be really difficult.
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WEEK 10
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Lining the animation ⊱ ۫ ׅ ✧
This week I actually stayed longer after uni to get this lining done, because well its week 10 I need to get this done by hand otherwise I wont pass this module.
I am so happy with what I have produced, I mean it could totally be better as when doing it I realised I made one big mistake. Not key framing. I did mention in my other animation I have done before this project that I found it super helpful but I mean I got way too excited to start it that I just went in fully with frame by frame animation then doing it properly. So sure I ran into problems but I mean I quite like how fast everything is it makes it feel like a busy cafe I suppose. I just know for next time that maybe I should AT LEAST PLAN A LITTLE BIT. As I struggled. But besides the struggling part, the lining was much more simple than I thought, I was afraid that it was going to be super difficult and too hard to complete everything. Last week and when I went into class I had a super negative mindset that I was never finishing this and I set myself too big of a task to complete in the last three weeks.
Because I don't have access to the software at home I can't do it from home and usually ifI was worried I would of just spent a whole day animating from home but I have to work from uni and I can't really go into uni on the weekends because I use the weekends to complete my other tasks that I get each week.
So I was kind of panicking but I managed to do it which I am super proud of and really happy with. I know the lining isn't that good but in my eyes this is a huge improvement. From what I did in college to now even though it's only been a few weeks, Felt because I re visited the different animation priceless it just helped. I also suffer with this problem of making characters not look the same each frame, it's still totally there. I haven't grown out of it yet but I have gotten better. It feels much smoother and I am proud of it. It may not be the best and is super chaotic which is something I really need to work on in all of the modules that I do are sure I include Hierarchy because if I don't everything is just too chaotic and hardtop read but I am working hard towards it and I feel like I have improved just the smallest amount from college!!!
I think if I had keyframes it maybe the timings condo of been better because Could have had pauses or even made changes to the sound track I made to make it just a little bit slower. But at least I know now and I will make sure I try my hardest not to get carried away in excitement when animating and think it through
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As you can tell I did more than just the lining. I managed to start the colouring. I mean I know that is isn't that much progress into the whole animation but I managed to start it which gives me a bit more confidence for next week then I hopefully have all of it coloured and pretty much almost finished!!! Now colouring is actually proving to be difficult just because I thought this time within my lining I would make sure that I use different layers which is something I always forget to use.
Because I actually tempered to use different layers, some of the layers I have messed of colouring wise o for some of the colouring you see here I have had to go back to different layers and fix thump so the colouring I do is completely covering the background or the other lining for the other objects. But at least I know now for the future as in I need to make sure all my layers work until I get round to the colouring stage and I am ready to just colour and get it done with. Because colouring is boring. SO BORING so having fix other things up while also doing the one part I do not enjoy oy in animation makes me lose my mind. But hey at least instead of having to listen to the audio of my animation every 5 seconds I get to put it on mute and jam out o music to stay focused!!!
The way I made sure all of the colours where the same from my photoshop concepts was. I just opened photoshop and I am coping the hex codes of the colours into TV paint to make sure everything is constant!!
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WEEK 11
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Flat coloured the animation ⋆˚꩜｡
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LOUD WARNING (°□°;) (besides the last one its silent!)
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This week I stayed until 8pm at uni to make sure of the flat colouring was done, because well this is the second to last week to have in uni and I just want to make sure I can get it all done. I will say oh my god, working that long makes you absolutely exhausted and it was really hard to stay awake when I got home. But I am glad I did it because I am feeling so much our confident that I will be able to hand this in. Honestly I thought the shading would of been the most crucial point but because I forget to do the characters as a different line weight what I did just to show the difference between the background and the foreground was I added a lowered opacity layer of purple and on the human cafe scene yellow and it just sort of helped it all stand out just a little bit more. I think what I want to do is his only shade the human cafe because I quite like how the mouse cafe looked without complex shading or any shading at all. I just think it looks really cool and effective that this whole thing happening with mice will never happen but like it would be cool if it did.
When doing the colouring because I was adding so many layer to do it it ended up making the video really big now I didn't think it would do anything to the audio at all I thought I would have to edit the audio at the end of doing it. I was terribly wrong, the audio has gone all weird and it's really loud and crunchy like. But I didn't really know when colouring it because I had my sound turned off the whole time so I could listen to music because I kind of don't need the sound to just add colours. So because of the the 2 animations I save to show my process are super duper annoying and sound awful. I did save a different version with no sound to make sure I know that when I completely finish all of this I have got to put it in premier pro where the sound track originally was so the sound actually is listenable and shows my really cool awesome editing skills that I worked really hard on.
Besides the issue with the sound, the colouring I think has gone really well, I think I keep mentioning this in everything but it is my main feedback I get. Hierarchy I think it is alright this time or course with forgetting to use different line weights doesn't make it helpful at all, but I struggle to make colours work to gather and make sure that the backgrounds are coloured but sort hide the characters along with it. I really like how everything looks tighter in this animation as well as now that there's flour it looks so much clear on what is happening because the just lined version looks super busy and it's really hard to know what is going on but here it looks easy and it doesn't even seem too busy at all.
I am proud that I did the colouring because honestly it was so boring, I men listening music definitely helped me not lose my mind but I couldn't figure out hoot use the bucket tool on a different layer (even though usually I don't use the bucket tool I do colour things by hand I just thought it would be good for this animation because I didn't really have the time - turns out I did but hey originally I thought I would) so I coloured everything by hand even frame is individually coloured and it was kind of making me loose my mind, but I am glad I did it like that because it gave such a nice sense of achievement.
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WEEK 12
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