Overall, I feel that all three of us are very pleased with the outcome of our final animation, mainly because we did not believe at the beginning of the module that we would ever have the ability to create our own stop motion animation, based on the fact that for me personally, I barely knew what the word 'animation' actually meant. The work we have done since October has certainly, for me at least, made me realise that I am capable of things that I would never have imagined, and I wouldn't have had the opportunity to pursue those things if it wasn't for this module. We certainly worked well as a team and all found ourselves naturally falling in to three roles that suited us best without any arguing or confrontation which could potentially have had a negative effect on the final outcome of our project.
However, we did encounter some problems and limitations during the creation and development of our project. The biggest issue for us was trying to get the lighting right in order to capture all our frames as we had hoped to. One particular motion, which is at the begging of the animation, in which the moon comes down and across the screen caused us a lot of problems in the sense that we could not get the lighting to get darker to emphasise the transition between day and night in order to make the motion more visually effective. We tried adjusting our set up, covering windows and even covering the top of the backing set with a big black piece of card but the light would not adjust at all, therefore we simply carried on with the lighting as it was in the hope that the viewers would still understand the transition between day and night through the use of the sun and the moon in our animation.
We also encountered a problem with using clay in our animation, although this was only a minor issue as it only occurred towards the end of capturing our frames as a result of our flower growing so big that the weight of it was causing it to fall over. However, this issue was addressed promptly by creating a small wooden stand with a triangular base to place behind the biggest flower in order to support it which allowed us to take the final frames that we needed to complete our animation.
In reflecting on the presentation of our animation to the rest of our class, Mandy and Sue, we were all slightly disappointed at the quality of our video on the screen, however we were not the only group to have that problem. Although, Mandy promptly reassured us that it was simply due to the equipment that we had been provided with in order to create our animations and mainly as the video was being enlarged in order to fit the size of the interactive whiteboard screen in comparison to a computer screen which is what we had been using to create ours through Zu3D. Therefore we assumed that it would look as clear on the whiteboard as it did the screen but this was not the case, and we don't think it will have any negative reflection on the way people perceived our video as every group had the same issue, therefore people were understanding which was re-assuring.
In conclusion, even though there were problems, which have been highlighted above, during the development, completion and presentation of our animation project, over all I am certainly pleased with the final outcome and I thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of the project from beginning to end. However, if I were to do a similar project again the main issue to address for me would be lighting and setting as I feel that if it's continuously changing throughout the duration of an animation, unintentionally, it ruins the fluidity of the motions, as I noted in parts of ours. I would also push to have a longer time limit on the animation because although 2 minutes of video took hours and hours of work, I feel that given a longer time limit the content of the story could be developed a lot further allowing the main concepts behind it to be made a lot clearer to the viewing audience.
Wednesday, 7 May 2014
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