Evaluation

For this assignment I have been asked to create a short sequence animation, about any topic. The topic I chose to make my animation on

was Cut Out. I chose this topic as I thought that it would be the most effect, and less time consuming.

My first idea was to do Charlie and Lola, Driving around with their mother in a card driving past certain things and talking. I started by getting a car from the Internet I then went into Photoshop and had to make it look like my characters were sitting in the car.

I achieved this by opening up Photoshop, and inserting the car. I then selected the lasso tool and selected the back window in which I wanted the children to be sitting. Then I had to turn the opacity down in the window so you could see the children through the window. I then placed the children into place.

Now I had made my car all I had left to do was make the backgrounds in which the car would be placed and then move. I first started off with the first background, which was their house in which they had just left. I started off by searching the Internet for a house. I only house I could find with the right angle had construction work going on in the garden so I deiced that I would take it into Photoshop and then make my own garden.

This was the image I had to start off with. I deiced that I would add grass in front off the house and trees to the side, finished off with a fence either side.

This is my finished background. I have added other images in and them smoothed the edges using the paintbrush tool. I am really please in which my first background has turned out I think it looks very professional.

Next I had to start my second background, the idea for this one was to have a horse a field and the car drive past I didn’t have any problems making this background and it was very straight forward.

This is my finished background.

I then came to my third background, and then I realized that when I printed my other background out that they didn’t blend together and If I carried on with this idea it was going to be very time consuming as I would have to go back and change the other backgrounds, otherwise as the car was moving it would look very jumpy.

So I have decided that I would start a new idea I knew that I would have to be very quick, and maybe not as good as I would have hoped for. So now I had to plan my new idea.

For my new idea I am going to get pictures of famous people and cut them up and bring them back together in the animation. First I had to go find the pictures I was going to use. The people I chose were Muhammad Ali, 2 Pac, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Bob Marley. I chose these people because they are very famous people and everybody will know who they are.

Now I have done my animation I am not very pleased with it as I think that it is too short as I didn’t have time to animate all of my chosen characters I only had time to do one which was Muhammad Ali. I think that my animation would have look a lot better and there would have been a lot more reason.

As I only used one of my chosen characters I think that my story had no point to it, as people did not understand why I have done this.

If I could change anything about my animation it would be to use a background, as I only used a black piece of paper. Also because I didn’t know were to put me jigsaw pieces I drew around them so that I knew were to put them, because of this I could see the pencil marks and also there was greasy spots. To make my animation better I think I should have used sound effects. Such as sound effect from a boxing match or something of the kind.

As part of our assignment we had to sit and watch the other animation of people in the class, then we had to fill out an audience response form. I was really pleased with the response of the people in my class, as most of the feedback was positive.

My animation was described as creative imagery and colourful. I do agree that my animation was colourful as I used bright colours, I used these because I knew that they would stand out because of my black background. But I do not agree with the creative imagery comment because I had to rush this animation and it was just an image moving.

This is my final animation. I am please with how it turned out due to the time I had to produce it

Today I have finished my animation by adding sound and credits.

I have added the music to my animation using garage band. The music I have used is a song about Muhammad Ali. I used this music as I thought that it fit my animation really well as it was about Muhammad Ali and so was my animation.

This is a screen shot of me adding my music to garage band, I have used this to prove that I have added my music by garage band.

There was a big problem in my animation because I have only used my first image and it was already 15 seconds long. I had to make a decision and fast. The decision I made was to only use one image in my animation, this was partly due to the time of my animation, but it was also due to the fact that I have only two weeks left, and I still needed to add music, credits and my evaluation.

Today I have decided that I need to add some text to my animation so I have went and got different lettering form the internet and add them add together to make up the makes of the famous people I am using, I have also got a little prop for each of my characters, such as a boxing glove for Muhammad Ali and a microphone for 2pac. Once I have collected all of my equipment that I was going to use. I am now going to start my animation.

Today I have started searching the Internet for some images of the famous people in which I wanted to use, which are

• Muhammad Ali
• Bob Marley
• 2 Pac
• Marilyn Monroe
• Elvis Presley

I have chosen to use these famous people as each and every single one of them are very well known and as soon as you see there faces people will know who they are.

I have know found the images I want to use, the first one I used was one of Muhammad Ali, when I found this image it had different stencils around the image of a photo. I thought that this would look really effective in my animation there fore I used the image. Once I have the image I then took it in Photoshop and changed the colour of the outlines into bright and bold colours. I then found my different images for the different famous people and because I wanted them to look all the same I took them into Photoshop and added the same stencils as the first one.

Today I have had to decide on a new idea. I have search the internet to have a look at some existing animations and also I have a look at some people from my class. After looking at some different ideas I then thought of my own.

My new idea was to have different images of different famous people I would then cut them up into a jigsaw style. I would then in the animation bring the images back together.

From now on all the work if for my new idea.