Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Assignment Write up/Self critique

Lauren Willoughby
Project #1
Title: Daydream

A boy is sitting at his desk and begins daydreaming about him in a boxing match. He manages to get the upper hand and win the match.

I wanted to give off the idea of how some kids like to daydream about being good at something they like, like a sport or activity and in daydreams, they most likely depict or see themselves as the winner or the best.

I know that some kids tend to get distracted while in class(one of my own many major flaws) so that's where I got this idea to use that scenario. Plus I think that sometimes escapism or daydreaming can be a good thing, at least being done at the right moments.

I think I really got down how kids often like to see themselves as the winners in things in life, and in their dreams that often happens.

I really wanted to make the idea or example of a daydream of a kid clear so I tried to keep it simple. I think I at least got the main parts of that goal down.

The tricky thing was noticing the small little things or details that I forgot in some scenes and I had to keep going back to fix them so I would like to work on that. I also had trouble importing the Photoshop pieces into After Effects as layers, but I managed to get help in figuring that out.

Once I was able to get into the animation process and work on it, I found that I really did enjoy working on it. There were a few frustrations, the getting the photoshop files imported as layers being the most particular, but once I figured them out, I was able to enjoy working on the project.


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