Thursday 25th April

Today we were carrying on with our animation from Tuesday  The start of the groups animation creation was under way today as me and Dan had finished creating our story board and we were ready to start making our assets. However, before we could do that we had to set up the stage area and zu3D on a laptop to begin creating the animation. After setting our stage up we started making assets out of plasticine and testing out some techniques, but just five minutes into testing and we had already changed a couple of aspects of the animation. The camera angle was changed to more of a slanted view to make it less complicated for us, how the morphing happens from one object to another and lighting has also been changed.

By lunch we had about four to five seconds of testing footage. We played the footage back and the technique worked perfectly, the motion was great and the lighting made the picture crystal clear. I am glad John gave us more time to alter our treatment or storyboard if needed because we actually changed it physically and how some of the animation works. The time today proved well worthy as we were able to test out techniques and see if what we wrote down on paper would actually be doable not only by us but by other people as well.

After a lunch me and Dan decided to leave the creation and got on with the written side of the unit, we did this because we said we would come in tomorrow and carry on with creating our animation.

I think I and Dan worked well in a team by listening to each other’s ideas and doing different parts of a scene. I learned today that detail in planning is very important to an animation project to succeed in being fully complete and doing a test session before the real creation can really benefit the project too. I can't wait to see the animation come together and play the finished and final version of our animation