Applied Animation: Completing my Animation

In order to finish off my animation in time for submission, all that I needed to do was add the titles and the sounds, which was pretty straight forward and hassle free.

I started with the titles, as I decided I wanted to add them in, in After Effects, as I wanted to animate the main title. It took me quite a while to figure out the style I wanted to go for, as I obviously wanted it to be sympathetic to the story. In the end I decided to go for a font that was as close to the font used on the books as I possibly could, but I ended up actually finding the exact font and using that instead.

When placing the assets into After Effects I had trouble with the resolution, which I had learned from the final crit that some of my assets were a really low resolution for some reason, so I decided to place the assets back into the composition and this seemed to solve the problem (however this didn't work for the turtle). I am really happy with the overall style and theme of the titles and I feel that they work really well with the overall aesthetic and tone of the animation.

Next was obviously the sound, which I found really easy to add in using Premiere and I had no hassle whatsoever. However, I wasn't happy. I didn't have enough natural sound to fill in the spaces that had no sounds, so the whole animation was filled with these little bursts of sound rather than a continuous flow of sounds. At this point I was really disappointed because sounds were something that I didn't really have time to experiment with after I encountered my problem so close to the deadline. There isn't much I can do in order to collect a soundtrack to place in the background before submission so I will have to make do with what I have.

Having said that however, I did manage to put together a single animation with an example of a soundtrack that could possibly work with the animation. But I do feel that the music is too overpowering. Despite this though it does show that the animation works a lot better with an added soundtrack. 

 

After realising this, I have decided to collaborate with my dad (he's a musician) to create a soundtrack to go with the animation in time for the final exhibition in case I decide to place this on my showreel. Overall, I am disappointed that I didn't keep on top of my time management and that I didn't prepare for problems such as I encountered, but it has taught me to create multiple back ups of my work and to never work from the original file.