Animation
By Alex Reames
The First Steps
1. Finding a subject for your animation or story.
Ex. I went over doing a music video for a song, different fairytales and then settled on doing salt fairies which was something I had the idea of before but had just done sketches of.
2. Making a storyboard or coming up with what your subject will be doing.
Ex. I thought about doing a snow fight, them in class and I didn't know how much I could get either of those done so I ended up doing an intro of a TV show kind of thing.
3. Find out how you are going to draw each part of your animation.
Ex. I drew out the outline of the animation and then sketched where I wanted the fairies to go.
4. Start your animation.
What did I do to make an animation?
I went through each of the steps stated above in order to make this. First though I really didn't know much about any animation tools or programs that could be used to make animation. At first I was going to use Blender but the program I soon learned was too complex to do what I wanted to in such a short period of time. But I did learn the basics of Blender. Then I went on to doing a 2D animation on Flash which is a program by Adobe. This was easier to work with for me and did what I wanted. Then I went on to draw out 40 pictures in Flash to make my animation.
Concept Art
Fairy #1
This is one of the drawings I did of the first fairy to see what details the fairy might have in the animation. This is a lot more in depth than the fairy in the animation because of how many times I knew I'd have to draw it. So the fairy in the animation is much more simplified.
Colors
This picture was really just a rough drawing of what colors I wanted the fairies to be.
Sketches
These are some other sketches I did in the beginning to see what the fairies would look like. Then I also made a salt fairies logo which I put in the animation. So the animation would be something like an intro to a TV show. Then in the picture you can also see how I sketched out what routes the fairies would take.
Final Product
How This Effects My Life
The point of this project for me was to learn if I liked animation. I wanted to know if it was something I would want to go into in the future. I learned that there are some aspects I really enjoyed like designing characters and adding in little details. I also know that animation now isn't done in 2D and is at this point more about using programs on a computer more than drawing and things like that. But I think that it's something I could like to do in the future. After this project I want to look more into it.