Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Final animation


Over 1,000 drawings and many many hours of Photoshopping later, here is my final animation!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXp_Z3WYN_o

I'm quite pleased with the outcome, it is quite wobbly and amateur looking but I'm pleased that I managed to finish all my drawings and stick to a schedule!

Audio



As most of my time has been spent drawing and scanning i haven't really had a chance to experiment with audio. As i only have a day left and still quite a bit to do I think I am going to go with a piece of music instead of having sound effects. I am going to go for a piece of acoustic/instrumental music as I think words may distract from the visuals slightly. It needs something fairly upbeat and simple.

I have found a website called Jamendo.com which has loads of royalty free music. The tracks are free to download and can be used for commercial and non-commercial purposes so I don't have to worry about copyright issues.
http://www.jamendo.com/en

I had a little search through some of the instrumental pieces and found something which I think will work well. It is a simple guitar piece which I think is appropriate for the rhythm of my animation.  I have put all my frames together now so hopefully the audio won't need too much tweaking!

So much drawing...



I've actually managed to keep on schedule for this project hooray! Altogether i have scanned in and edited 93 pages of drawings from my sketchbook, almost there! 












Friday, 3 May 2013

First section




Here is the first 23 seconds of animation. I'm working at 10 frames per second so it's 230 frames worth. It's time consuming to say the least!