Animated Life Lessons

Hey! Amazing blog readers we are starting our new animation project and its gonna be good! My teammates for this project are Timmy Blum and Kalani Young. For this project, our focus statement is "Lani Loses Friend." We have to use each of our teammates' character cutout and we must exaggerate their personal traits & idiosyncrasies while telling a relatable story with embedded life lessons that is easy for an audience of your peers to understand. Basically. My teammate Timmy has a wild personality but acts very innocent and quiet when he's by teachers or people he doesn't know well, but he's faking it because Timmy is a sneaky raccoon. My other teammate Kalani is very quiet but can be quite rebellious that sometimes drives me crazy! But overall a pretty good friend. In our animation, their characters are a little different than they're true personal character traits. Kalani in our animation is a problem solver and Timmy is picky and is bad at accepting people for who they are, (but in the end he learns.)

STORYBOARD

So our story is about Lani loses her friend because she is too clingy and huggy around Tim. Kalani sorts out their problems. Lani learns about personal space and Tim learns to accept people for who they are. We are showing humor through my craziness around being clingy around Tim and Tim is kind of sassy in the animation because he won't talk to me when we "breakup". It is also very humorous because when you use the puppet warp tool to animate you can do pretty funny things with it by warping your body into un-realistic shapes. Unfortunately, we didn't do much of this but the way we used puppet warp was still pretty funny. Our class still thought it was funny but I think we could have done a better job at showing our personality traits considering it was one of our main goals. At the end, I showed humor through what I call "creative thinking/writing" by saying "Lani Alo and Tim Alo 5eva" (If you don't get this I used my last name for the guy instead of usually using the guy's last name) It's not that funny but oh well!

Our team's level of productivity was pretty good considering we haven't worked together and probably never would have until Mr. Sanderl asked us to work with people we never worked with before. Our biggestc hallenge was that not everyone on our team could complete making 2 animated scenes in the time given so we had to use photoshop pictures and stuff like that. Also the work divided between our teammates weren't spreaded equally so some people had to do more work than others. To add on, it was our first time working with animation using the puppet warp tool so none of us were experts. We all admitted to eachother that we were bad using the puppet warp but I think as we got further into our animation project we learned how to use it more correctly and our story turned out being pretty good. Our biggest problem was when the project was first due and we only had about 3 scenes completely finished with movement and animation and another scene which was somewhat of an animation. Our storyboard consisted of 6 scenes so 2 of them we had to use photoshop pictures that we drew so this was a pretty stressful moment knowing our project was being tried in with not the highest quality of work. Our best moment during production I think was when we had the extra days to make it better and when we all agreed it was a good project to be turned in. The day we turned it in was a good moment for our team and we were all happy with the project.

Behind the Scenes

Our animation ended up getting 2nd best overall in the class!