Dominique’s Animation year 1 blog, BA1b Part 2

Week 10, (Week 31) (11th of May, 2018) This week was my final week to complete everything, as its deadline week. Luckily, I managed to complete all my work in time. Tuesday, I spent time working (in After Effects) on editing the   green screen out in my video, I found a useful tutorial on how to improve parts that became pixelated after keying. Wednesday, I finished editing my final sequence for the mystery box, adding in my drawn background, animating it to move with my armature when she walks. I also, using shape too (then editing) added lights that flickered to the street lamps in the background. I also experimented with the 'starburst effect', editing and animating it to explode from the box once its opened and disappear after its closed for a more dramatic effect. Additionally, I also added a rain effect, to fit the background scenery and give extra atmosphere. Thursday, I spent the day making my Experimental Reel, using Premier Pro. I show from the concept art, maque...

 This is my Show reel for the year, from September 2017- May 2018 I did have some animations go missing, that I was not able to add, and had to restart this last night on an much older version of Premier Pro (2015), but I was able to complete.

I have finally created my Experimental Reel for the stop motion Project. I have used Adobe Premier Pro, and all of my footage, pictures and drawings that I recorded during the making of my animation for 'The Mystery Box' brief.

My completed, edited scene of the Mystery Box Project. I have edited this to the best of my abilities, however I do feel this could be made much better. I am not happy with the pixel edges around the box, however after many failed attempts I was still not able to remove this. Perhaps after much more research, and practise I would have found a solution to this. I also wanted to add a glow effect to the box, but was not sure how to achieve the look I wanted. But with experimentation, I was able to get the effect (despite not perfected) for the lambs, seen in my animatic. Also, instead of the light/ glow effect, I experimented and found a different effect, despite not being what I originally wanted, I think its strange and effective. Overall the animation itself is not perfect, and the walk cycle failed as I was unable to balance my model (I believe I made her shoes to heavy and thick that the pins failed to keep stable inside them. As mentioned before, I had to use a sponge underne...

I decided to look for more inspiration for my show reel in tutorials.

I decided to look into more ways of animating an in intro, looking into logos to make my show reel more memorable and much more personalisation.