Tuesday 24 March 2015

Animation Project: Solving Issues

Jo & Jess
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Throughout our group animation we have had many problems like
  • Losing our work (people stole it)
  • Having to figure out how we're going to approach our idea
  • Making character 
  • Thinking we wouldn't have enough time to shoot
  • Re-Shooting out animation
Even though we lost some of our characters, we managed to improve some of our testers and use them instead. It took us about a week to actually figure out how we could approach our idea. Going from just drawing a character to actually having multiple characters and a backdrop. In the end we got it together and actually built a stage and did all our backgrounds. Then after that we was ready to go. 

(Jo) When it came to making characters, it took me a whole day to make loads of different media ones. I wanted to see which glue and paper would be better to use. Luckily i made loads so that i could use the back ups.  This was a problem, because it took a while to figure out how the characters would move, which in all honestly i stressed about.

Thinking that we wouldn't have enough time to shoot and everything else being a challenge at the start, it started playing around in our minds. Therefore we all became stressed.

We all didn't mind re-shooting the animation because it looked so much better in the end, plus we all had a laugh with it. The first time we shot the animation it took a whole day and went really slow because we had the backdrops moving instead of just appearing. The second shoot went pleasantly well and quick because we knew what to do.

Our ideas have changed an awful lot over the course of this project. We changed our timeframe. Then we changed our story line and switched characters. When it came to using media we did try doing some sand and plaster-scene, which we knew we would fail in completely... Vicky was pretty good at it and so was Jess, but we thought it would take to long for us, as our characters needed quite a bit of detail.

Whenever we changed an idea, it would always be for the better and not just because we thought it would be the easiest thing to do.


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