Animation Station Fall 2018

For our final project, we were tasked to make a 10 second dialogue. It could have been about anything as long as we focused on the mouth movements and made it as realistic as possible. I think mine turned out great!! I loved watching it come together and after I got the hang of which sounds create which shapes in the mouth, it was all just about putting them together. I really liked the style of this animation I did and have an interest with continuing in dialogue in the future.

For this project, we were back in After Effects, working with typography and motion graphics. I've always had a big interest in motion graphics so this was a pretty cool project to be assigned. For this, I discovered the 3D camera in AE and used this as my animation tool, to try something new. I struggled with it and thought that if I had more time to redo this project that it would have turned out much better, more artistic. I did really like trying something new though, and I love the lion king :)

This was the first project we had done in Adobe After Affects. We were tasked to make a bouncing ball interact with an object. I was fairly frustrated with this project because I was not used to AE at all and it took me quite some time to get used to it. Once I got the hang of it, however, I really liked how smooth the animation was. I didn't really like how everything had to be on a new layer but it made the organization of it pretty easy. I'd say I still really liked harmony over AE for animation, but they are each good in their own ways for their own specific things.

For this project, we were tasked with making a character interact with a weight. The whole purpose of this assignment and the challenge at hand was to show some type of strain or struggle, some type of push or pull when interacting with a weight. I chose to do a fish because I thought that it was something different and not just an average human with a weight. I thought it turned out pretty good, but I should have taken the water more into consideration and had the fish look as if it was being pulled by the water after it interacted with the weight. I was still proud of it though, especially because I had been getting used to harmony at that point.