FINISHED ANIMATION

After spending 3 days trying to get my video up onto blogger and each time receving this message

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I am left wondering what I am ment to do with my entire assignment as I can't upload any of the test shots or the finished animation.

Note for Mr Andrews

MR ANDREWS, My animations were taking a very long time to load on blogger ( 1% per half hour) and it will post as soon as they have loaded

Sorry for the inconvenience, Madeline Grice

FINAL REFLECTION FOR TERM 3

Year 9 Creative Media Animation Project – Term 03 2011

Mr Andrews

Post Production reflection/evaluation:

Respond to each of the following dot points (using complete sentences or paragraphs). You should include as much detail as possible in your responses.

· Discuss whether your final animation clearly reflects your original concept and planning and describe any elements you had to modify when creating the project;

I can say right now that my animation right now is completely different to what I had originally planned. I have been through the design stages of many different stories and have unfortunatly wasted time planning them before deciding that certain elements of the story that I had thought up were either too hard or too expensive.

· Explain how your animation skills developed during the project (i.e did you become more efficient?; did the quality of your animation improve?; did you have to use a variety of techniques? etc);

My iStop Motion skills developed a lot during the prosess because of the many test videos that Sam Flatly and I made.

· Describe any problems or difficulties you encountered during the animation process. These may include; technical difficulties, corrupt or missing files, difficulty using the editing software etc;

My problems included not being able to settle on an idea until it was very late. I also had many technical difficulties including not being able to save onto my usb. I would also have really liked to add music to my clip to add extra effects but again technical difficulties stopped me from doing this.

· Explain whether you made effective use of storyboards and planning to streamline the animation process;

I did not make effective use of my story boards, because I changed my ideas so often I ran out of time and was constently changing the ideas on the spot and not following any plan, which I can now see was even more time wasting.

· Describe any time-management issues you had during the project and describe the steps you used to improve in this area;

I had a lot of time management issues during this assignment for reasons stated earlier.

· Discuss whether you undertook adequate and detailed reflection to throughout your project. Have you provided enough evidence to support your work? (Look back at your blogs/journals and think about whether it looks like a whole term worth of work);

My refelctions were very un-detailed and irregular, in the future I will be sure to update my blog after every lesson

Discuss your feelings about the production task:

· Are you satisfied with the final result?

I think that I would have done a lot better on my project if I hade more time to work on it and therefore I am unsatisfied with my result.

· Did the animation process require more/less time than you had thought?

The animation project would have required more time to give a satisfactory result

· If you could start the project again what would you do differently?
I would stick to an idea and be more organized with my planning.

New Animation.....again!

Yet again things are very different to last time I posted. Things were getting a little complicated working with a partner so Sam and I decided that it would be best to work on our own projects. My NEW (yes that's right another new concept) is going to be about a fussy wooden statue who gets board of standing there while someone draws him so he decides to go off and explore around! I am going to have to do a lot of work at home to get this finished on time .. so im going to start story boarding now bye!

Current Progress for the Animation

Well... a lot has changed since last time I posted,
I have an entirely new concept for my animation. instead of the simple stop motion I am going to use fabric to create things, similar to the target under the apple tree commercial. I am also working with samantha flately. Some issues that we have encounter is that we are having trouble being able to find a camera that is high enough to get an shot in. We need to go out and buy some fabric in order to start creating the actual animation. My planning is coming along well and i am about to start my 3rd storyboard because the ideas keep changing!

Bruce Bickford

Born in Seattle in 1947 is an animator working primarily in Clay animation. His concepts were very controversial and often surreal. His first movie was in 1964/65 and it was a 10minute short of animated cars.

Reflection so far...

So far this term I have started experimenting with animation-ish and iStop Motion and have started creating my short movie. My short movie is about a young girl who is sad in a black and white world and when a butterfly flyes past and brings color with it she becomes happy. It's a very basic storyline so I am relying more on my actual animation to bring the story to life. To create my movie I am going to use iStop Motion and Photoshop. I am going to make the whole thing black and white and obviously add the color when the happiness comes into her life .. i.e the butterfly. I am going to re-do the storyboard after re-thinking my idea.