Animation assignment

EVALUATION
The stop motion animation proved harder to create than we initially thought it would. The first problem we faced was taking each frame with the play dough models. We struggled to get the models to stand up on their own and often found that we needed to re-shape the models. Re-shaping the models meant that when putting the models back on the scene they had to be put back in the exact same place, if they were not in the same place then video would not have a continuance to it. We also had to be careful when it come to the movement of the characters, if we moved one of the models too much or not enough then again there was a lack of flow to the video as a whole.

This image shows Rosie re-shaping our play dough models, to make the models balance on their own. 

Personally, I believe that if I had to do create an animation again, to improve it, I would construct a story board before designing the models or scenes. By making a story board you have a clear idea of what you need to do next and what props you will need prior to making the animation.
We also faced problems making our animation, when it come to working out a timetable to work on the animation because me and Rosie were never free on the same days. In relation to this issue I believe that the animation could of been completed in a shorter amount of time if it was done individually as having the same free time was a problem for us.
Another concern we faced was the sound effects that we were adding to our animation. Firstly, we decided that we would record our own voices to add to the animation, however when we were recording the voices they were not clear and one voice was always clearer than the other. We then thought against this idea and added some sound effects that recorded from you tube and also added the song in to it, jut this segment of the animation took a lot of hard work and time. However this was not seen when we payed the animation as a presentation because the sound did not work on our animation, to which the reason why is not clear. We felt huge disappointment when the sound did not work because it did not show how much work we put in to the sound side of the animation.
The lighting for our animation was also a concern because the animation was not completed on the same day or in the same place so the lighting of our animation was changing because the weather and surroundings was changing.
The ZU3d app was not as easy to work with as it may look, the fact that this application is used within schools for children is quite concerning because us, as third year university students struggled to get along with this application so I can struggle to see how children can relate with this software.