Evalaution

My final is a cell animation which is created digitally, that lasts for 30 seconds. In this project the software I used was cs4 illustrator, photoshop and aftereffects, which all had an impact on my final animation. Overall I feel I have created a creativity response to the audio track I was given, it has a strong storyline to it, it fits into my 3 descriptive words because the hole animation is fun to watch, lighthearted through the dancing and annoying also fits in through the donkey getting annoyed at the lizard. I know I maybe haven't done many different storyboard ideas but this was definitely the main story I kept thinking about listening to the soundtrack. I feel I have met the brief with the duration of the animation, its a pretty simple designs with a well applied sequence.

What I will take from this project is the animation skills on aftereffects, which has made me realise how hard animation actually is, but I thoroughly enjoyed created the animation for this project and gives me a clearer understand of what I want to do later on.

Final animation.

Reason for the lizard

The reason I chose the lizard is because its the opposite to a donkey in nearly every way, and if a singing lizard came across a donkey I'm sure the donkey would be freaked out.

I feel the donkey and the lizard calibrate very well together due to the fact they are so different to each other.

Reason for the donkey

The reason I chose a donkey is... well one of the main reasons is, just the picture I got into my head while listening to the soundtrack because the song seems quite fun and lighthearted, which a donkey dancing with maraca's definitely looks fun and being on two legs while dancing the donkey must be light on his feet!

Storyboard.

I know I've already uploaded this storyboard but being my final I'm going to talk to through what happens. Firstly you will see a donkey dancing with maraca's then 10 seconds in a lizard comes in singing and the donkey gets scared by this but then realises he's just joining in on the music so the donkey carries on dancing while the lizard keeps singing, then the singing stops and the lizard starts dancing and the donkey looks over realises he's dancing as well and the donkey wants only himself to be the only one to be dancing on the screen so he get angry and decides to karate kick him off so he can keep dancing to the end of the animation.

Influences

Jungle book, everyone know its a film involved around the animals in the jungle and the reason I am influence by this is because the way the characters act the opposite to the last influence (happy tree friends) which is entertaining and amusing, you see animals dancing and singing which is exacting whats going on in my animation.

Influences

Happy tree friends famous for its gory animations but I'm not influenced by what they do with the characters its by what they look like. The animals they have created are simplified and have made them with bright, bold colours which is the look I'm going for.