Evalution

Evaluating/reviewing final product

My final piece is a stop motion of a man going down a road and waving at someone who he goes past. I was influenced by a story called Rip Van Winkle, a story about a man going up a road. I made a storyboard for my animation which was quite helpful as it made me know how my animation was going to be like. I created my animation with cardboard and put it onto adobe premiere after I filmed it to edit it.

I did some research on the different types of stop motion animation and I used this research to know which type of animation I wanted to do. I had problems filming the animation as I couldn’t keep the camera still when taking the photos so the animation looked quite choppy and I overcame it by using a camera stick. My product when well I as managed to make a good set for my animation and used all the models I created. It does communicate well with my ideas as my model is going down a road (originally a mountain in my plan) and waving a person.

What went less well was the fact that the models were starting to get damaged and becoming hard to place them in the slits I put on the road. Also the animation wasn’t quite short and wasn’t as long as it was meant to be. This could be because I could’ve added more slits. The ending of my animation looked quite messy as the camera wasn’t showing a character that I added so I had to move the camera down. If I could repeat this process, I would make it longer by added more slits to the road and making them be closer to each other to make the movement of the models be smoother.

Evaluating/reviewing your animation

My final animation was a group of fishes being chased by a shark. I created it by firstly collecting images of fishes from google along with a picture of the deep sea as the background. I made the background the first layer and put the fishes in different separate layers so that they don’t overlap the background. I then created a motion tween for the fishes and made the move around the background.  65 seconds in created another layer. I then pasted in a shark and made it a key frame. I made the shark chase the other fishes.

I made a story board and I followed it but not entirely as I didn’t get to complete the animation. It was useful as it gave me an idea of how I was going to create the animation.

I created this animation using adobe animate. I mostly used the classic tween and the motion tween. I also made the fishes and the shark into a movie clip symbol. I then used the blur tool which is found when you click filter on properties, click on the plus, and put a high number on blur X

There weren’t any problems I had to deal with when making it due to having experience with adobe animate. I believe my animation went somewhat well as it communicated with my ideas a lot. Unfortunately I didn’t get to finish my animation due to work experience.

If I were to repeat this process, I would make the story shorter and simpler.