an update on my acheivements of today....

....first of all I edited my original 2-D drawings and I added more features, like I made the balls bottom jaw fall off as it hits the ground and I made his facial expressions change as he fell to the floor, realising his imment fate and of course I added more blood. Then I made a pleistocene (sorry if its spelt wrong no one knew how to spell it and that is what word's spell check told me) ball and I made it bounce using the stretch and squash technique to create the illusion of it hitting the floor and bouncing (and as it hit the floor I made blood come out of it and I aslo made it tear apart at the end) to have a better effect and make it look good. And I used the same software, which was stop motion pro V7, and the same steps to make both the 2-D and 3-D videos, edited where and when I neede to to have the maximum effect and sleekness for each. But I didn't turn the lights on when I did the first 2-D recording, so I recorded it again hence the better quality second-half to my animation.

another ball dying...have fun!

 This ball dies again...like most of my other videos something has to be morbid or weird...but thats me. enjoy!

This is an overkill....this video contains graphic voilence that some viewers may find distrubing

                                                the ball dies in a way thats most odd...

just afew print screens and photos of todays out come

What I have done today...

...well...I first of all I made myself a guide sheet, so I could make my animation along these guide lines, thus allowing me to plan out my animation and make the drawings easier to follow. I made 24 pictures in total, but unfortunately my ball bounces backwards...but that's ok I can tell people thats it's a magic ball that can bounce itself. I have also worked the equipment to make the animation, the first step was to open stop motion pro V7, then press file and then press new project, name it, and give it a shot name, then press the button with an image of a camera on it to take the picture, but before you must go on 'advanced settings' on the side tool bar and change the picture takeage to 2 frames per second, then you take a picture of each piece of paper, then click file, 'make movie' and change the video settings to Quicktime MOV and press ok, then I saved it and uploaded to my blog.

my ball animation...it goes backwards...

ha! my first real animation of a ball bouncing backwards...and its just for you. enjoy!

animation fundamentals

I think that the DVD as a whole is very good. The colour scheme works well for the doritos theme, and the layout was good but it could of been better. The scene selection and the extras are one menu which is a bit of a let down because the software we were using didn't comply with our requests to make three different menus, but we made do with what we had and the we got the DVD done. It could of been even better if we could add even more assets and had seperate menus to make it easier for the viewer to navigate around it. My original intentions were very different to our actual DVD. My original design was simple, but too complicated for the software to function with. My idea was a little person in a dinosaur hoodie, but the actual one was a blue and orange swirly background that was the same on each section and menu. Our time management seemed to work well because we got everything we needed to get done, done on time and to our fullest extent.

I reviewed three people on the interactivity of our DVD and this was their thoughts;

'I thought the DVD was interactive and easy enough to navigate because there weren't too many menus and the labels were clear. The little added extras were good too.'

'I enjoyed the colours and the pressing of buttons was what made it for me. The outtakes were good and the truth behind the doritos was funny'

' I liked the amount of assets added to make this DVD more exciting and fresh'

So, yeah this is what I thought of it and what three other people did. Knock yourself out.

What I did today

First of all I made an interview of me, kieran, connor and ben about how we made the advert, what difficulties we faced, how long it took to record and edit, wether we would do it again, wether we worked well as a team and what we thought of the film itself. And then me, ben and connor made a short video of me and ben arguing over wether or not you should have a favourite flavour or not. I also edited the film, added some sound effects and other things.