I learned with this project how to make a lot of frames out of a small number, to better know what I want my end result to look like to make the beginning and middle steps more streamlined. I learned more about timing and using amounts of frames better, which I seem to learn some of every project, and also I did a lot of work with symbols inside symbols. I tried to make something only possible through animation, that couldn't be captured by normal writing. I completely abandoned my original idea about internet grazing and focused on a monster of adjectives that looks like a cloud, but probably represents multiple images to viewers.
If I had two or three more days to work on the project I don't know what I would do. I might speed up the start or sped more time on the monster's origin, on a blackboard or a journal of an angsty youth. I spent a lot more time then I planned on this piece at first but to make everything look like I had envisioned I needed to put forth more then I expected. I hope my long project is not shorter then this one.
I would decide what I wanted to have happen a lot sooner were I to tell past me what to do differently with this project. I spend time making my monster but it had words that were backwards and vertical so I thought it might be hard to read. I tried to make my stick figure look more realistic in his movements and wasted a lot of time.
Ah, wouldn't it be lovely to be able to go back in time and tell the earlier you what was coming up?
ReplyDeleteYou did a lovely job with the monster, Lucas. The animation is very effective and intriguing, and could be further developed as an idea in addition to you developing or streamlining it technically.