DONE

 

I can now give my fingers a rest , lots drawings and edits later and we now have a 24 second animation, managed to work through the mistakes and im quite impressed with the result, got to admit , been hard but i have really enjoy it, hope you enjoy it too

after effect editing

I wanted to show the makings of the animation , now with the goal in site i wanted to show how i tied off the lose ends and made sure the animation ran well.

the first beat starts a bit in and  i thought it should match the rain, so as the rain comes in i moved the selected part of the song and made sure the beat kicked in when the rain started to fall.

In order i looked at the section and as you can see on the screen shot lined up where the action was to the beat in the songs

I had seen a few animation of the groups and to top it off and finish nicely i decided to add my name, what better way to show you proud then to put your name on it

more film

 

I was just to excited to wait , i wanted to show you how i was getting on with the next bits of the animation and here you go , add them together and ive got an animation. i am so pleased with the motion , the umbrella comes out well and the the effect of the lighting tops me off

beginning

 

As i have created my animation in section i haven't worked in order but now the beginnig is done i thought i give u a sneaky review , im excited for the rest of the film now , and its almost there now , just need the finsihing touches of timing and music and the animation will be alive (ha ha)

at least now i seem to be able to work after effects, good job for trail runs

time line

After looking over my first clips of he animation coming together i started to worry , i had already planed how the animation would run in the story board , giving brief details as to the seconds and frames, but becasue i had now got a feel for how it works in after effects i decided i needed to tie of all ends and create a accurate time line , i looked at how many frames i had created for each section and using my 12 frames per sececond i calucated how many seconds that would be, as a visual aid i create small drawings, this time line really helped me think and visual how it would all work together and after seeing how many seconds i had filled and where everything sat i could use after effected to fit the beat of the music according to the action in my animation.

all the rough notes turned into a tidy time line, no more " now where did i put that " and more " yes i know whats next"

 

coming together

 

This animation hasnt all been smooth experiences , when i was on after effect some of my uploads where coming in the correct sequence , i had to rename a whole folder full of images and then after effected decides to delete some of my files and make the half the size , after deleting uploading a few time i managed to get it working, but some of the animation was running to fast and this was one of the parts where even ho it was meant to run at 4 seconds it ran at 2 and working on a computer when your angry isnt fun

re-think

After looking at the story board and having a few chats , i thought one of my ideas to zoom into the facial reaction wouldn't work, i had planned to create different emotions throughout the animation and to zoom in on just the face would lose all the other hard work of detail, i changed the idea to the rain drop zooms out and the one rain drop then becomes part of the group falling on the boy/character.