Evaluation of my animation
- 1. Evaluation of my animation My animation was created with three others in my group. Our animation was about the marriages that took places with King Henry VIII. We first started of planning our animating which I felt went really well. We were on time when completing all out tasks. We all worked together in creating our own individual tasks for this animation. Our planning then helped us when making our animation. We each helped to create the sets and the models. The models took quite a while to create, but I felt that they looked really well designed in thee and as we worked together as a team, we each had our own input and ideas into the animation. We had to ensure that when creating our models that they were child friendly and not too complicated as our animation was for primary children. When photographing our animation we made two main errors. We didn’t take the images all at the same time so the lighting was slightly different in all our images and we also had images that were taken at different angles which looked a bit unprofessional when it came to editing our images. Editing out animation was the longest process. I think it was purely because we were slightly unsure about what we had to do in terms of how to put it together. We came across many issues such as the original sounds we were weren’t needed so we therefore had to get new ones to include. Also, we decided that we were no longer going to use narration in our animation and so we therefore had to write up text that ran throughout. Our final animation product Our animation as created for primary school students; I felt we done a good job at ensuring that this animation was educational as well as interesting. We made sure that there was writing, simple and done enough for little children to understand easily. I felt our models were well created as you could significantly tell that there was a difference between each character. They were funny to look at and they looked really interesting and I felt well made. Also, our animation did include all six wives events and what happened to each of them. Our animation told the story of the six wives in chronological order making sure we told the story exactly how it should be told with each wife in order. However, I felt that our animation could have looked a bit more professional as the images weren’t all in the same place and some images looked totally different from the image that would have been before which meant the movements of the character were bigger than what they should have been.
- 2. Another point was that we realised was that we had mixed up one of the wives heads during the making process as it must have come off and we must have put the wrong one on each wife. This meant we had to change around the images and improvise with the last two wives ensuring that you could still understand our storyline without anyone noticing what’s happened. Lastly, the quality of the images was not as good as they should have been hence why we had to delete many when editing the animation. For example: the king henry the VIII scene had to be totally edited as all the images came out not so good. If we had spent more time on taking each image precisely, we would have had good shots of each wife, with slick moments. I wouldn’t change our theme of our animation if I had to do it again as I felt I learnt a lot through making this animation like the skills of creating characters professionally through plasiticne. I also learnt that if you ever come across an issue, it may be quicker to improvise than re-do the whole thing as long as you can still make your product look good. It was nice to work as a group and I felt our group worked very well together. I would have spent more time on photographing the images if I ever had to do it again and I would ensure that we upload all our images once photographing so we can see what we have left to keep the whole group on track at where we’re at. We should have spent a bit more time on planning out exactly what each scene will be about as we had only researched into the main storyline but we didn’t create a proper plan for our actually animation. This could have made things a bit more organised. Overall it was hard work creating this animation, but it was a lot of fun and I would love to do it again. I learnt a lot about different types of animations and I gained group skills as I usually prefer working individually but this task worked really well with a group. Our animation could have looked a bit more professional considering how much effort we put into the planning and making, however I was very pleased with the way it did turn out in the end and the feedback that we got for our animation is that it’s very interesting and educational. Some even said it made them laugh at some points. They though it was really imaginative how we did many things such as the beheading scene and the only problem was the quality of the animation e.g. the images should have been a bit smoother.