First video ever submitted by me! Cool, right? (Not.) Anyways, if you're willing to read, here's some background info on this video...
So this was my final for Motion Graphics and Design class. Basically, to create a two minute animation that shows everything we learned in the past semester, i.e. camera movements, stroking, motion tracking, the works. The theme could be whatever you wanted it to be, but in the end you needed a storyline and at least one animated character.
Now see, I took “animated character” literally, which was not supposed to be the case – by animated, my teacher meant one of those flash animations where you just move arm and leg parts or just bounce the character around the screen. I thought something completely different. Thus, hell ensued for an entire fourth quarter as I spent hours attempting to create an actual frame-by-frame animation for the first time without any knowledge of how to do it whatsoever, other than remembering those kid-time days where you draw stick figures on notepad paper and make flipbooks. (Yes. I took my experience from that.)
The result - after a whole lot of blood, sweat, tears, near-carpal tunnel, and fried-out eyeballs - earned me an A+ in class and a chance to put the animation on our school's end of the year graduation-themed broadcast for everyone to see. Needless to say, I am very, very proud of this. It's the hardest I've worked on anything, and probably the most challenging thing I've ever had to do in my entire life.
In saying that, I hope you enjoy this animation put together by yours truly. :)
Time Spent: Every odd day of school, one and a half hours each, for about two months. Add about twenty hours of at-home work, and another twenty for out-of-class time. In other words, too much time spent.
Programs Used: Adobe AfterEffects, Final Cut Pro, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Photoshop CS
Music: Fete d'ecole by Ootani Kou (Shakugan no Shana II OST)
All animated characters copyrighted by: crystal.elements (me)
Rating: User: crystal.elements 2008-06-07T11:35:05.64Z
Tags:
Sketchbook | Chaos | animation |