Monday, September 21, 2015

Character Animation




Throughout my entire life, I have had a passion for movies. I love how they are made, the many different themes and types of drama of different movies, and the way it has an impact on my life and everybody's lives.

For my character that I came up with was to bring a film projector to life because of how much I enjoy movies.

I really enjoyed being able to create my own character and then make it come to life on the computer. I liked learning the different tools throughout this process.

First, I drew my character on paper and outlined it with a dark marker/Sharpie and then "printed"/uploaded my drawing onto the computer into Adobe Photoshop.

Then, I made duplicates of the head, arm, and the legs and them put the all together into one piece/character. It took me a while to fill in color into my character because of the little detail like the eyes and camera.

Next, when I finally got my character set up I dowloaded my character into Adobe After Effects and went from there to make the projector move and walk.

Once I finally got my character to move, I then Rendered it and uploaded it to Youtube.

My strength during this animation was the way I made the four legs move and made them not slide too much.

My weakness would be still trying to understand the program and figuring it out on my own, so I don't have to keep asking for a lot of help.

Overall, I thought it was fun being able to make just a simple little character/drawing and make it come to life.


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