FMP Animation/ Evaluation

 

(Click here for my Animation)

To start off I’d like to state that I tried my absolute best with my animation, however, given the fact that my animation skills are very poor and I didn’t understand it completely, the animation kinda failed for me. The animation was originally going to be an informative and educational animation about the “brief facts” about Eadweard Muybridge.

However, during the process, my ideas changed as the character’s movements were relatively restricted as well as the movements would move strangely and gave a feeling of poor quality or something not to be taken seriously. so I decided to work on that and actually make it intentionally “bad” in the sense of the movements. however, I tried to make it somewhat interesting, with special effects (implemented by after effects), and music (implemented by garage band as well as logic pro).

The animation had to consist of 30s (30s maximum and 27 secs minimum). to create the environments I took images of Kingston as well as images that I have taken in the past and applied a posterised/ cut-out effect onto them. all the images I used were a primary source (taken by me) however a few of the sound effects like the birds chirping were from “soundbible”. to create the rain effect, however, I got rice and literally poured dry rice onto my phone whilst the recording was playing. meaning the phone was able to record the impact properly as well as being able to hear the impact the rice/ rain would have if it was actual rain.

I originally created my environments using illustrator and photoshop using the paintbrush tool as well as various tints and tones of colours. however, I realised that the environments ended up looking amateur and mediocre, so I decided that environments which are sourced from real life areas would look more effective.

I originally wanted to create this animation frame by frame but I later realised how tedious and time consuming that would’ve been as it took extremely long to create this animation using digital means. The character featured in this animation is a variation of Eadweard Muybridge. the reason why he has no eyes or mouth is merely the art style I chose to use. I thought an abstract approach to the animation would give it a more surreal feel.

the requirements were to make it 1080p HD, H.264.

the feedback i got was mixed but was very helpful.

it has shown me that people did appreciate my efforts as well as getting some great feedback from them all, i believe it would give me a better chance in future.

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After effects moving squares

here below is a simple animation created using after effects. the task was to create 3 moving squares, however i decided to use a couple more to make it more interesting.

the main composition was called master, as master is the composition that all the layers would be used on.

inside of the master composition i created a new composition within it, in that layer i created a 4 sided polygon and pasted it directly in the middle of the sub composition.

i then double clicked on the master tab and dragged and dropped the previously mentioned square composition into the master composition, making sure it was played outside the master composition canvas.

i then dragged the work area/ time navigator slider to around 3 seconds, so the animation would only consist of 3 seconds.

i then dragged the playhead back to the 0 sec mark, then selected the square. i then pressed the stopwatch next to position, which creates where the animation would start of the square. i then dragged the current time indicator across to three seconds, and i then drag the square across the workspace to the opposite edge of where it was before.

then when i play the animation, it moves across the page.

i repeated this process 5 times with separate squares, which animated diagonally, horizontally and more