Animation-Week 1

On the first day of animation we were put into groups of 6/7, these were the groups that we would then work with to create our animation to present to the rest of the class the following week. One of the first things we had to do was write down our responses to a number of questions that was being asked by the tutors, from this list we then had to pick one object to draw and pass it round the group for other members to add something to it. We then used this first object to create a short storyboard individually which was then presented to the rest of the group and the best one was chosen to exapnd on before presenting the final one to the other groups. I found that this process helped to understand the different ways in which you can think up a story, as this is the aspect that I usually struggle with the most. Over the course of the week we were asked to create another individual storyboard to present to your group, this would be the idea for our final animation. I decided to base mine upon the brief/theme of memories by creating a protagnanist who shows this by being able to see into their head and all the things they want to do/have in the future.
On the second day of animation we created a practise animation based on events that had happened in 2013, as part of this we had to draw a seperate image and the sequence to this image on a seperate piece of paper within our group which we then put together to create the final outcome. I found this quite enjoyable when you was able to see it all come together, I also enjoyed watching other peoples animations and being able to see the different ideas and transitions that people had created.