Final Task Part 1

By far I would have to say that making my own stop motion animation was the hardest task I had to complete in this course, and because of that it is also the work I am most proud of. When making my stop motion I didn't have access to any actual animation software, instead, I had to use a regular drawing program and draw out by hand each frame on an different layer. With having over 150 frames and therefor having over 150 layers, it made my computer slow and start to leg whenever I went to work on it. I also had to go back and add in more frames to my animation, and having the old frames match up with the new was a much harder task then I anticipated, and even though it may not look as smooth as I would like I am still happy that I managed to complete it on time. All of the difficulties I faced and over came while making my animation is the reason why it is the project I am most proud of. I feel that I have learned quite a lot more about animating things out of this experience, and comparing it to an animation that I have made last year proves to me that I have indeed improved quite a lot (unfortunately the animation that I am refereeing to is on my old laptop that is broken and cant turn on, if I still had a copy of it I would show you). If it wasn't for the deadline that was closing in I would have had more time to go over and improve the choppiness of the old and new frames blending together, so that would have defiantly been something that I would have improved if given the chance. Something I would change would be the length of the animation, originally I wanted the "blob" to form into more things before turning into the phoenix at the end, but once again I didn't have time to do that.