Final Animation
Evaluation
Director, Producer, Time Manager, Editor, Sound and Designer.
Toria Trinity.
Actress
Jennifer Trinity
I am going to be taking about my animation/film, which is called ‘Can’t Climb’. I have done a lot of research and concepts, which are all on my blog.
Since I started this term I have had been giving the chance to do this Animation/ Film. I catch the train as my transport to University and I read the metro like 1000’s of other Londoner’s which gave me the idea of comic stripes in to a film like many other, Snoopy, Garfield and so on. So I created my own story based on my own life experience at University. It’s my second year at a new University and I thought all my class mates was on a high platform than me and I had to climb up to get to them but I couldn’t and had to work hard and pull my socks to get there but did in the end. I gave myself a timeline in which to create the animation in CS4 flash. I was shown how to use the new bone tool in flash and it would have been very useful but I created my character in Illustrator then imported it into flash as a bitmap, which meant I couldn’t use this tool because my character didn’t have a shoulder and elbow joint. I had to import every part of the body at every angle and each object had to have its own layer on the timeline. I created the tree and the backgrounds also in Illustrator. Everything else I made in Flash. The animation took quiet a while to do move every section to how and where I would like, even so it run over the time I set. I did not realise how much time it was going to take. I knew it was going to be a challenge and I could have done a short Drama/ Film but I wanted to push myself.
I wanted to add real movie to the final product as well, of someone reading the newspaper to make it clear that it’s a comic stripe. I have to make a short divert from the storyboard to add a few typography sound effects to give you the feel of an actual comic. Once the filming and the animation were complete, I place the two together in CS4 After Effects and pieced the two together. I had a few problems with rendering, as I wasn’t sure what to do or what the movie settings was best to use. I also had a problem with the raw footage I had been jumping once rendered I sorted that by re importing the raw video footage then replace it in After effects.
I have an idea for a chapter two to continue the story on and it be making a ladder for him to climb and a tree house to make friends but finds out that isn’t the way of making the best of friends. It would be great to have an on going series of the possums. Similar to some online shows that are like mini soap operas.
I’m highly happy with the finished product the only thing I would change is in the raw footage with my sister in I would have liked to have her on a tram or train to have the full effect also that is has my idea sprung up and inspired me to create this lovely like character and story.
If i had the chance i would change the song choice on the movie but apart from that i pretty happy with the final piece.
