Our Animation

We've been tasked with creating our own animation, below I have some of the source links for some of the items used.

Image 1 : http://dailyreporter.com/2011/04/08/editorial-cartoon-168/
www.drawingcoach.com

Image 2 : http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__7733.aspx

Image 3 : http://www.123rf.com/photo_12363191_white-delivery-compact-van-front-view.html

Image 4 : http://wikicarshow.com/ford/2010-ford-transit-connect-xl-cargo-van.html

Image 5 : http://www.h20andcobathroomfitters.co.uk/contacts.html

Image 6 : http://www.featurepics.com/online/Coffin-Side-View-White-873001.aspx

Image 7 : http://processengineering.theengineer.co.uk/goodbye-to-one-man-and-his-dog/1012810.article

My animation is finally completed and I have had several comments on my animation.

Beta Testing

Matteo felt the speed of the dog and the speed of the ball the balance wasn't very good, in which I agree, he also felt it was clear and understandable, and its easy to relate to a animation through feeling and clear visual effect.

I found that I had quite alot of problems while going through the animation, I found I had alot of errors, and many animating problems, I felt flash was very frustrating and temperamental, and wasn't flexible at all, although the end result was good, i still found the whole process tough.


Screenshots

We were tasked with taking some shots for the design process, so here I will annotate what I have done and had to do.

This is my first scene, as you can see alot of work went into it, even though by appearance, it doesn't seem well done, it was my first attempt at flash in 6 years, and I had to learn how to animate something all over again, so the animations are not too in depth, even though the frames appear complex. 

 This is my 2nd scene, on the 3rd Camera angle change, its of the part where he discovers his dog has been ran over, and he starts to cry. synchronising the sound was challenging on this part, especially when I had to cut and change the sounds around.

This is the 8th scene, near the end, where the man wakes up, and seeing the ball and his dog asleep, he feels angry that the ball caused his dog to die in the dream, this he chucks it across the room, and face palms for having a bad dream. my other scenes, are well understood, but some people have questioned as to what happens at the end, thus I chose to screenshot the final image and interpret what happens.

As Mentioned before We had to modify sounds to fit the synchronisation of our animation, here I had to cut several bits of the sound out to have it match with the visuals.