PEER REVIEW
We presented our animations to the rest of our Education Futures class and was then asked to decide to make a peer review of one of the animations. After observing all of the animations, all of which took a lot of effort, I decided to review Rhian Davies' animation which was called 'Solution no Pollution'. Pollution is a major issue within our world and we have to look after our planet in order for it to continue with it's existence, which is he message that Rhian is helping to send out.
Whilst watching all the animations, this was one of the animations that stuck in my mind because it had such a clear and effective message in the anmation.
Rhian created this animation on her own so she designed the sets and the scenes and all of the models and props and also created all of the sound for the animation which clearly took a lot of time and effort and also a lot of patience. It is clear to see the amount of imagination went in to creating this animation, especially when the Co2 is rising from the burning fire in to the sky and then being reabsorbed by the tree, that on its own would have taken a lot of time.
What really stood out for me in this animation was the sound that was added to it, the Ed Sheeran sound track that was used seems very fitting and also the sound effects that was played on top of the sound track.
Another aspect of he animation that stuck out was that the it was created with only paper, whilst many used play dough or other materials. Although the animation was shorter than others and Some may have wanted to see more, Personally I think that the duration of it did not affected the quality of the animation. I believe that the phrase 'short and sweet' comes to mind. To sum it up this animation was clear, precise, imaginative and effective.
Here is the link to watch Rhian's stop motion animation
http://educationfutures92.blogspot.co.uk
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Thursday, 29 January 2015
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.
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.
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.
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