Day 5

I've now made the ball turn into a... humanoid figure. he jumps into the screen and lands on the floor. I've also gone back and colored a bunch of frames.

Day 3

I went back and made concept art for my character, and started to develop more of a plan for my short animation. I have not decided on an official name, so far he is only codenamed as "Pink Man"

Final project

I'm working on my final project now. ;( basically, I have to do a project highlighting a specific aspect of animation and write a paper on it, to show that I've learned more about it. I will be doing an 2-D animation in flash in order to focus on the emphasis of movement, which is something I think I would like to get better at, because it really ties together an animation by presenting things like emotion and exaggeration in a piece.

Group Project Finished!

This is the outcome of all of our work! It took two weeks, and  a lot of vigorous work, but we got it done and it looks great! The hardest part about this, I think, was trying to deal with all of the lighting and other things that were required to be rendered before we could see it, it chipped off a lot more time then we needed. What was most fun though, was animating our character to match the personality of each of the individual booths, because just trying to express that emotion in a comical form was a very interesting task.

New project: Dont press the red Button

Here's all the planning we are doing for a new project, where we are given the prompt "Don't press the red button" we are working with partners for this, and all the work has been distributed evenly. here is our plan for story and characters!

And here is our script!

INT - LABORATORY - DAY

We see a young rat, walking aimlessly towards a doorway. Seeing him on his way through is another rat, clad in a lab coat, holding a clip-board. Through a glass, the second rat can see everything the first rat will do in the next room, and we can infer that this an experiment.

The rat walks through and we see a shot of the room. There are three booth- like sections, each colored differently. We can see a stark darkness from behind a glass wall at the end of each booth. In front of the glass, is a counter housing two buttons.

Above the booths is a sign labeled: PICK ONE

The rat approaches the first booth. He presses one button, and a light turns on, revealing a small rabbit. This pleases the rat.

The rat approaches the second booth. He presses the button, and a light dispels the darkness, revealing an innocent cat. This puts the rat at ease.

When the rat reaches the third booth, he is greeted by a pair of menacing eyes, cutting through the darkness of the confine. A low growl can be heard from the other side. The rat, quivering in fear, decides not to press this button.

The other rat looks at his clipboard expectedly, and is seen scribbling something down.

FIN