Monday, December 4, 2017

Final write-up

At the beginning of the term I didn’t know anything about animation or the programs we were going to use in class. I didn’t expect to be very good at it but I hoped to at least learn how. There are a few things I still haven’t figured out but I think I did okay with the animations. I had a mishap yesterday where my file wouldn’t open so I had to use an older save but I was able to get it back to roughly the same point today, if a bit shorter and lower quality. Not that it was great to begin with. I would like to continue working with animation and try to improve, maybe try 3d modeling and animation, but I’ve proven over the past couple years that I can’t handle 8am classes so I’ll have to try on my own. I am glad I got to experience animating in this class despite my poor performance and constant absence.

                I started the term not having any idea what to animate and that continued until halfway through the final project, when I knew exactly what I wanted to happen. The first project is the one I’m most happy with despite having completely winged it. I might go back at some point and make it smoother and fix some weird lumps on the cats, maybe add more to it. I think the most important skill in regard to animation I learned was making a story board. That really helped with the final project. I wish I could have included all the scenes in the story board but between procrastination and the loss of progress I had to settle with how it is now.