Advertisment

For this week, I decided to create some advertisment to promote the animated feature. I was able to come up with some ideas, hope you like them?

I feel it reflects the feature and tells you visually what my animation is all about. What do you think?

Main Animation Part 19

Today I relooked at my annimation and noticed that I needed to make a few changes.

These have now been completed and I hope you like them.

Main Animation Part 18

Today I began putting the clips of the introduction, main section and the dream all together without the music added.

(EDIT)

Today I have completed the animation after going over to check the final details of my animation, which includes the main music.

I am very pleased with the end result.

Main Animation Part 17

Today I carried on with the introduction on my project by adding my character to the intro and slowly overlap the clip of me in the animation.

Here is the end result.

Main Animation Part 16

Today I have started cutting and editing my introduction for my project.

Main Animation Part 15

Today I have completed the introduction to my animation. This describes in a short speech my story.

Main Animation Part 14

Today I decided to finish the last add on (objects etc..) for my main animation.

With these last two "add on's" the main part of my animation will be finished and completed. I need to animate the arm .


(EDIT)


The final parts of the main section of the animation is now done and complete. All there is now is to make the opening introduction speech and then put them all together.

Main Animation Part 13

I relooked at the main animation and I realized that my character wasn't life like or moving at all, so I've redone the clip again.

Main Animation Part 12

Here is the changed animation of my main section. Changes have been added as you can see, except for the stickman, which will be added later.

The "Dream section" has been redone. Here is the test with and without the iris effect.

I still have the planning to do and my video introduction of myself introducing the animation. I also have to put the animation together as one clip.

Animation So Far.

Here is the main animation that I have done so far.

Main Animation Part 11

I was able to redo the introduction and make it into a scene.Just like the opening credits. I thought it would make the main points in the animation more understandable .

(EDIT)

After some feedback on the introduction it was decided that I redo the scene ,and to give to much information about each of the objects in the animation.

Main Animation Part 10

Today I have been working on my dream sequence for my project, working on the animation and also adding the iris to the project.

(Clip does NOT have the iris effect.)

After i was sure the animation was alright, I added the iris effect to finish it off.

Main Animation Part 9

During the weekend I had an idea of maybe have a word introduction to my project so that the audience would understand about what my animation means. (Here the intro)

INTRODUCTION

My name is Daniel Mason and I have Autism.

We all have ideas about Autism, but are you aware of how it affects people?

My particular problem is speech and language. I have difficulty understanding people and words.

I have decided to do my project on my own Autism and how it affects me.

My Autism is represented by a cloud. The cloud is always there, both good and bad. Always shadowing me. You might not see it but it is always there.

The objects you will see will describe both my emotions and expectations.

• The stick man - Represents my ambition in animation
• The sewing needle represent my language difficulty
• The 3 F s are FEAR, FAIL and FRUSTRATION - These are my constant worries.
• The 2 brains - These are working together sometimes in conflict and sometimes for creativity and inspiration. Enabling me to refocus on my dreams.
• The sun - We start of with a happy day, but with all of my worries and expectations slowly develops into a very confused and miserable day
• The dream sequence - This is my visual representation of what I want to be and where I want to be. I have used a very specific genre of "Old Disneyfied Animation". This is because I want to work in animated movies represented by the role of film in the scene.

Autism can be very cruel. I look ok physically. But your views and treatment limits me. Your barriers do not allow me to achieve my goal in life.

Give me the chance to chase my dream.

I hope you enjoy my animated feature.

Hopefully with this intro it can help describe my animation better.

Main Animation Part 8

Today I decided to improve on the main animation where it was needed.

I extended the time rate for my Autism cloud to appear.

I added a few spins on all the 'F's when they fall down.

Also adding the pencil object by making it animate on the piece of paper.

Main Animation Part 7

Today I started redoing the main character for the animation by having his eyes and mouth expressions so that it can become more alive. I will use Aftereffects.



I also finally finished this drawing.

Main Animation Part 6

Today I decided to redo the dream section of my animtion and have the dream character have more movment so that it wouldn't look flat and dead.

Here are the frame's for the image. The test clip has a black background.

Feedback On My Work So Far

I asked for a feedback on my animation from my tutor and he said that I should have more energy to my dream character by hand animation or 3 "boiling" on Aftereffect. (Boiling means having three drawings of the same scene repeating itself.) To get the black and white "old skool" style animation.

That I should add a radial blur to the iris on my dream scene so it wouldn't make it sharper.

And that for my main character I should add some movment so he would not look so stiff. Add seperate movment's to the eyes so that the character would show some emotion.

Main Animation Part 5

Today I have been working on the Dream scene of my animation, including the iris.

Here is the clip.

Main Animation Part 4

Today I carried on with the main animation, by changing the time length on a few objects and including a few more items into the work.

There a few things that need to be added, which are an animation of a stick-man, the rain effect, and another drawing of a character on paper, as well as the last scene of my dream section.

Main Animation Part 3

Today I've been continuing with my animation story.

Main Animation Part 2

Today I carried on with my main animation story.

Main Animation Part 1

Today I have started making my animation on 'Adobe After Effects CS4' and have finished a large part on the beginning of the project.

Little Extras.

Here are the little bits I forgot to make for my animation, this was just to help with a few scenes.


Also in my spear time I thought i might as well make the poster for my animation, short and simple.

Final Drawing Touches

Here are the final drawing touches for the animation.


This is one of the backgounds for the final dream shots.

Opening and End Credits.

These are the opening shots for my animation.


Opening


This is the ending of my animation.


Ending