Critique

During the critique, the feedback I had received was:

• Try variations of color
• Have plane moving from left to right (slowly)
• Have the door whip open for a more cartoon-ish effect
• Use of boiling for plane and clouds was effective. Try adding it to the name at the end.
• Add strong to the main character.
• Have character with more accurate proportions. Everything is too similar.
• Animation overall needs more personality.

Week 16 Final Animation

 Although I had followed my storyboard almost exactly, I had run into a lot of different problems that made me alter some scenes quite a bit. After enjoying my green monochrome color scheme, I thought carrying it across all my scenes would be effective. It would be a different sort of aesthetic from the rest of my projects. Since it's supposed to be a cartoon-y kind of animation, I felt like adding the green splatters rather than a reddish color would keep the tone more whimsical and fun. In addition to this, I tried adding action lines as the character is flapping his arms to give the illusion of quick movements.

Week 15

In class I had received feedback on 50% of my finished animation. Some of the feedback I had received was:

• Refrain from using effects. Keep all elements hand-drawn if I want to use an effect.
• Redraw moving elements instead of shifting them through Adobe Animate.
• Good job at keeping boiling is kept to a minimum.

Unfortunately I didn't have too much to show as I scrapped the scene I had shown in my previous post. After trying to animate the character leaping out of the plane countless times, nothing had really looked right so I scraped it entirely. I decided to take a different approach and have the character jumping out of the plane from the start instead of showing an inside view. 

Week 14 Outside of Class

Outside of class I began working more on my animation. To recap, my animation will be about a skydiver jumping out of a plane, missing his parachute he lands on the ground and splatters. The splatters will spell out my name. Below are two in-progress shots of the animation. The character will do a squat before leaping out of the plane to incorporate anticipation into my animation.

Week 13 Outside of Class

Outside of class, I began working on my animation. I'm pretty excited for this animation now, as I found a way to keep my hand-drawn elements very still in a frame-by-frame animation compared to what it was like when I had rotoscoped. I've also started playing with the different effects in the program. In the next scene, it will show a target on the ground where the person will try to land. When the camera pans down, it will quickly blur all elements in the scene such as the plane and clouds as they move upwards. This scene still isn't finished, but now I can really get moving on this animation since I learned a lot of useful tricks from tutorials.

Week 12 Outside of Class

Outside of class I storyboarded what my next possible animation would look like. It would be a little more humorous compared to my last project. For this assignment, we need to have some way to animate our name, and it must include in a character. I thought of having a man jumping out of an airplane to land on a target, but completely misses and hits the ground. When he hits the ground, he'll splat which will spell out my name. It'll be very cartoony and goofy, using sound effects and funny style too.

Week 10 Outside of Class

Week 10

I spent the weekend adding the beginning scenes to "The Monkey's Paw". Before this, I still plan to have text that shows the title of the animation before the house scene. I didn't get around to it yet as I was still wondering how I was going to include text and transitions into my animation. Below is what I've done so far with both parts combined.

I had received a lot of incredibly useful feed back during class. Some of the reoccurring suggestions that I've received were:

• Windmill too shaky at the beginning
• Man moving past the window also gets pretty shaky
• Phone that hangs on the wall looks too much like a chainsaw. Removing the white part between the cord will fix it.
• Sleeping scene goes on for way too long

Overall though, I've received a lot of positive feedback on the way the animation looks stylistically. The black and white color choice was effective and texturing some elements along with the lighting. Moving forward, I do plan to redo a lot of the animation though, as I want to go back and change the style of a lot of the objects. Adding the dot pattern that's on the couch in the second scene was very effective (I was told) and should be applied in many more areas such as the house, trees, etc. 

Week 9

"The Monkey's Paw" In-Progress.

Week 8 Outside of Class

Outside of class, I began arranging and building my scene for "The Monkey's Paw". Since a lot of the important scenes take place in the White's household, I decided to have the entire story focus on this single scene. I felt like it would be a lot less confusing to the viewers and that having a set and familiar scene would help viewers focus on the story more itself.

Week 7 Outside of Class

"The Monkey's Paw" is a short supernatural, be-careful what you wish for story. In the story, a family of three finds themselves in possession of a magical monkey's paw that grants the holder three wishes. However, each wish comes with a huge price as the user is tampering with fate itself.

The story starts on a stormy night as the family (Mr. White, Ms. White and their son Herbert) are visited by Sergeant Major Morris, the family friend. While he was traveling the world, he had found a Monkey's Paw with the ability to grant wishes. Having bad experiences with the paw, he tries to discard it by throwing it in a fire but is stopped by Mr. White who takes it from him. He is warned of the consequences, but does so regardless. Some time later, Mr. White's first wish is to be given a certain amount of money. The drawback for this however is the loss of their son the next day. The family is told that their son was involved in a horrible factory accident and as compensation would be given money. After some time passes, Mrs. White suggests using the paw to bring back their son. Mr. White does so, using his second wish. Shortly after, the couple hears a knocking on the door. Mr. White realizes that due to the horrific event and the time that had passed, their son's corpse would be horribly disfigured and decomposed. In addition to this, the family live very close to the graveyard where Herbert was buried, as his funeral had passed at this point. While Mrs. White runs to the door to let her son inside, Mr. White quickly uses his third wish to wish away their son before he is seen in that state. So far i'm still thinking what materials I will use. I will most likely be using different types of cut paper.