Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Animated Life Lessons



So, a new project has sprung up out of the blue! An animation project using the photoshop animating tool and puppet warp! This time, however, we had to work with people we've never worked with before. So, my teammates were Callum and Shaday. (Links to their blogs to the right) The goal was to create a funny "visually simplistic" animated story that had a life lesson, while exaggerating character traits. My trait was procrastination, Callum's was his introverted... uh... introvertedness?... and Shaday's was that she's also introverted, but hyper as well. Other people to make a cameo in the animation: Mr. Sanderl and Kacie Burns. Anyway, in the story, me and Kacie are asked to do dishes, but I don't do them and Kacie messes up. Callum, the introvert, has to find help, but he has trouble talking to people. Then, he finally finds Shaday on a bench, and since they have some things in common, they become friends. The end. Great story. Beautiful, and I'm not sure what I can add to that.

So our finished project is REAL funny, yeah. Totally. Hilarious. Eh, perhaps we slipped up a bit on that part... But some parts were kinda funny. Like when I just walk away for no reason, or Kacie drops all of the dishes and messes up big-time. My personal favorite part was when Callum confronts his fear of large crowds by simply saying "nope.". That's pretty much all that was kinda funny, the other stuff was mainly focused on the story. The life lesson is to not be afraid of public, and that there is always someone out there that can understand you. This may sound silly, and that so one would ever think that they are all alone in this world...- wait... nope. People think that sometimes. So, it wouldn't be hard to believe. Basically, there is someone out there who can help you, who you can become friends with, who thinks similarly to you. If I had to put the entire meaning of the story into one word, I guess it would be "Motivation".

I'm not sure I mentioned this, (I probably have) but these three legendary people, Linden, Shaday, and Callum, have never worked together before. Our average productivity was about average, but we were doing better than some people. I think that I worked the hardest and fastest of the entire group, (over two-thirds of the animation was from me) But Callum and Shaday were very productive as well. The best moment of the project was when we had FINALLY finished, and were ready to turn it in. It took a really long time, plus two deadline extensions, to finish the animation. If you see the film and are like "Wow. this is the worst animation and film of all time." First of all, no. it's not the worst film of all time. (That title probably belongs to a very bad film that I want to mention, but don't want to bash on it, so you fill in the blank. __________________) And it took a lot of effort to make. The biggest challenge was definitely time, NOT t-i-m-e, as we are forbidden to say that word, but it was probably speed. I was lightning fast at animation, but Callum and Shaday were not quite as fast. When I had finished my assigned scenes, they (no offense) weren't done with one. I diddn't really have a problem with this. Most people from other teams were just as slow, so I was glad to help them out and do a few extra scenes. Soooo yeah. In total, not one of our best projects.


OMG only a few weeks of school left!!!!!!
-Linden


Plan for the project right here

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