Evaluation.

Overall I am quite pleased with my final animation, I have tried to stick to the brief and go for something simple and not over complicated but its very easy to get carried away which is why my animation is 6 seconds over the 30 second limit.

I have enjoyed the process of this project and learning the skills needed to complete it, although it has been a tough challenge not being at all familiar with Animation.

I feel that I have learned a lot from this project skills and programme wise but also that it dosen't matter how in experienced you are at something because with the relevant research and planning, experimentation, determination and creativity you can get a good end result.

Enjoy. :)

Final animation. :)

This is my final animation, I have made some slight changes to the storyboard and got rid of the flower at the end to make it fit to the music and flow better, My animation is also 36 seconds long as the animation needed a little longer to fit to the change in the music. 

Background.

when my animation was finished it looked to plain with the white background
and needed some colour so sticking with the childlike drawings I created a
meadow scene in photoshop making the clouds, the sun and the grass separate
layers to create a composition that when brought into After effects I could
make the clouds move without moving all the background.

The process of changing initial drawings into animation.

 These images show the processes used to create the characters for animation.

I repeated the same process for the second teddy,
but changed the colours so that there was a difference
between the two and flipped the image.

After drawing the characters I scanned the images,
and placed them as individual layers on photoshop
to create a composition to use in After effects.

Body of the butterfly.

Butterfly's wings
(Repeated to get a symmetrical second wing)

Antenner also x2

This is the final butterfly that was made using
the above parts it was also flipped and saved
as a second composition for use in the animation.

After effects (puppeting)

A quick demonstration of After effects workshop 3 

Final Storyboard

Teddy is strolling along through a meadow with a sad expression on her face,

Teddy see's a butterfly that starts circling her head and Teddy looks happier and puzzled by this experience.

Teddy Follows the butterfly,

And begins to chase it and try and catch it,

The butterfly leads the Teddy through the meadow to Mr Teddy and they fall in love,

Mr Teddy then picks up a flower and gives it to teddy and then they stroll off together :) 

storyboard Ideas (Teddys)

Teddy is unhappy and looks lost,

Hand comes in from the left and pokes teddy, Teddy then looks surprised and shocked,

The hand draws a bow for teddy and puts it on the Teddy, resulting a smiley face, 

The hand draws a heart and a question mark asking Teddy if she believes in love at first sight, 

Teddy shakes her head,

The hand then draws a male teddy and The female teddy falls in love,

Do you believe in 'Love at first sight?' (Text appears at the top of the page)

Hand then draws Mr teddy a top hat and puts it on his head.