My progress and commentary on my progress so far on this project. I found that the first time I started this animation by myself, I was super excited for the animation. I had high expectations thinking "Oh! It won't take that long and i'll love every moment of this animation and process!" Although I thought wrong. Don't get me wrong, I loved drawing the frames in this animation. It was just a lot of work for one person. I needed another person to help do the cleaning or even colour for that matter. It would really go a long way because after actually having experience with a real animation for the first time, i know NOW that a lot of work goes into these animation and every little detail. It takes a lot to do every rough frame. It is very time consuming to clean up every frame. It takes a lot of time colour within the lines and adding the shadowing. I never knew before the work and effort that it takes to make an amazing animation. My last commentary I have to say about this animation is make sure to EARLY! Considering all the time it takes to make a few seconds which is more than 200 frames, that's a lot of work to do. My other comment I would like to mention about this animation is that the exporting process. Make sure you eject your usb properly. It goes a long way. The night before, I was rushing to export the 1000+ frames into my little usb. When it was done exporting, i pressed the eject button so I assumed it was done but my goodness was i wrong. Today when I tried to put in the images and it gave me really weird files. Corrupted files that is. So my advice when making an animation, make sure you take extra care of your files and frames. They are your everything. They are like... you're children there! They are very precious and needed to be taken care of. After finishing this whole animation, I'm just really tired and I found that is was a great experience. I just need someone to help me to make it faster and easier. Now... I'm just tired and need to go do other units of media. I find this was the most time consuming media to me. Very busy at school since I'm behind. All i have to do now so far in my animation is upload the pictures, video and all my reference videos. Then the animation will done and I can hand in the lovely units. Thanks for reading and feel free to comment on these journals.
