Animation

Editing

The editing for my animation was complex because of all the work required to create one frame. First we would capture the original image. Once we captured the original image we had to put it into a folder. Once the image was in the folder we would create a transparent layer and place the image underneath. We obviously put our own spin on each image as we didn't like what we saw in the original image. The animation we choose to do was rotoscoping, e.g. drawing over an image or video. We overall created 150 frames which took about a month to create. For amateur animators this is normal amount of time as it takes professional months to create 1 episode. I did the first half of the animation while Matthew did the second half. We both followed the same editing structure for creating frames. We choose to do 5 frames per second, which ended up being too short, so we had to create a intro and end sequence for the animation. All frames are of high quality as you can tell exactly what the character is doing and what he look like. We used a tablet in PhotoShop to help us create the frames for our animation. It frame was given a number in order from 1-150. The frame and original image would grouped into the same folder for easy access. We followed the storyboard we created for the perfect edit. When creating each frame we though about the brightness and shadows created from the characters and the background environment. An example of this would be the ball in the characters hand, the purple represents the inner circles shadow.

Evaluation

The rough cut is exactly the same as the final video. The rough cut was of high quality according to Dave Harrison former media teacher at Long Road. He did say that the frame rate could be quicker to make the animation smoother, but doing this would go under 2 minutes.

Positive Feedback

Class members said the animation was of high quality e.g. the animation (drawings) were really good.
They could understand the story was about friendship and that two people were fighting.
They thought the music worked well with the animation as it set the mood.
Both drawings from both animators worked nicely together

Negative Feedback

Could change the frame rate for better animation

First we used PhotoShop to create the frames for our animation.

Secondly we exported the frames into Adobe After Effects where we ordered the frames and put them into a timeline from frame 1-150.

Finally once the frames where ordered into a timeline, we exported the timeline form After Effects into Premiere Pro, where we created a new key sequence and added the soundtrack.