Finally finished my final animation short film, It feels good to be finished but also weird as I had been working on it day and night for many months.
For my final blog I will go through my journey of making this final film...(hopefully this wont be too long.)
Firstly we had to start from the very beginning, the story, characters and the plan. You can't do anything or go anywhere with out a plan and the plan is vital when it comes to animating a film, whether or not it is a long or short one. It took me a while to settle with a story I actually liked thanks to the help of many such as my lecturers and friends. But I enjoyed creating the characters and designing the hole film.
My film ended up with three main medias, 2D hand drawn animation, paper animation and claymation.
Which did I enjoy most?
I really enjoyed making the scene for the Clay world... Out of everything I enjoyed that the most. Though I enjoyed animating in 2D as well.
I set myself many challenges, actually this hole project was a challenge. Though at times I made it harder for myself I am very glad I did, I tested myself and pushed myself and now know what I am capable off.
Many things changed from the original story to the final, but that's okay and good as every change was needed if it be a simple color change to a change of scenery.
Though I was working alone when it came to animating and creating everything to do with what you see in the film I had an audio student who did the sound for me, Josh.
Josh did an amazing job, especially considering he was working with someone like me, who kept changing things and the timing would end up being very different to what was originally thought. Besides all that he did a great job. There where many times where I felt worried about him and where he was at when it came to the audio, just like I believe he was worried about me. At one point I actually thought Josh was going to bail on me... which terrified me. But in the end all it took was a little thing called communication, that settled all our worries.
I enjoyed working with Josh but if I ever work with an audio person again I will know for next time to keep in contact as much as possible and how important it is for both of us to be honest and straight forward with what we are thinking. (In a nice way of course.)
Though I really enjoyed creating this film at times I wish I was relaxed more... stress never helps and when I was really stressed I lost my passion and in the last few weeks didn't even like the film. Which is sad, now that I am rested I had another look at it and my passion for animating came back, and I am able to say that I am proud of my work.
Of course there are things I don't like about it and wish I had done a better job of. Such as the coloring of some of the 2D scenes, some are just not well done and that frustrates me but I had to try and color all of my 2D scenes frame by frame in a week.... that's not because I was disorganized... I was actually on time. But I sure have learnt how long things take and also how important it is to take a break so you don't burn out.
I had many challenges that tested me such as the challenge of rigging the clay characters, the technical issues whilst trying to animate in stop motion, frame rate issues and so on...
But through out all of it I am extremely grateful to have amazing lecturers, Kelvin and Luke, who where there to rescue me every time. (Even on a Saturday.)
Animating takes time, patience and passion to be created and for it to turn out well, but usually in the end it is all worth it.
P.S. Rendering is no fun... but I think I get it now.
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