My aim for todays lesson was to start on my animation and draw my character but as I don't have a Wacom I had to find a solution.
My solution is, today's lesson I will start on the background and possibly other things that I can just use a mouse for and I will order a Wacom and when that arrives I will start on the character drawing.
I spent the first 30 mins of the lesson, watching videos on YouTube to get some idea of how to create a moving background.
These are some videos I watched:
Screenshot of work done
I had to create the ground as this is the place where my character will be animated walking on, I had to create it simple so that when I attach both ends they look the same and I can animate it in a constant loop in animate.
Review of lesson plan
Personally, I think in the time today I had, I would say I managed a decent amount, I managed to start on the background and make some progress in that. I could of done a bit more, if I watched the videos before lesson and spent the whole lesson on the background. But nonetheless, I still did a decent amount on the background, meaning in the next 2 lessons I hope to have finished the background and all other add ons like the polish flag, music symbol etc. Meaning I will then only have the character to create and the to start the final animation.
Thursday 26th November
My plan for todays lesson is to finish off the background and also start on all the other little pieces that will be in the background for example the clouds, sun etc. I will also want to start on drawing the little pictures of things that are about me, for example a polish flag or music symbol. As I also have a graphics tablet now, if I manage to do all these pretty quick I want to start on drawing the character.
Screenshot of what done
Birds
Clouds
Clouds
Sun
The reason why I had to create each one of these is that, my aim for the animation is to create a realistic feeling sky, with clouds, a sun and birds. I needed to draw these as I will have them animated going across the screen at different speeds.
Review of Lesson Plan
I am really proud of the amount of work I managed to get done this lesson, I managed to create everything that I wanted to create: like the clouds, sun, Poland flag etc. As I managed to complete all the things this lesson I am now ready to start drawing my character and the facial expressions next lesson and then, I will be ready for the final stage which will be animating everything together.
Tuesday 1 December
My plan for this lesson is to start on my character animation and get that finished by the end of the lessons. If I finish a decent amount of time before the end of the lesson, then I will also try and start on the facial expressions for my character, that will be the final thing I will need to do before starting on the actual animation.
Review of lesson plan
In this lesson, I didn't manage to finish my character, I managed to only do 2 of the 4 positions. I spent the first bit of the lesson trying to figure out how I wanted my character to look like, which could've been something I done before this which would've meant I would've done a bit more this lessons. Overall I am happy with the progress but now I have just a bit more to do than I was hoping.
Thursday 3 December
My plan for this lesson, is to finish off all the remaining positions that I have and be ready to start on the animation from next week.
Review of lesson plan
This lesson, I managed to achieve everything I wanted to, I managed to create the remaining to positions and put myself into a good position for next week to start on the animations
Tuesday 8 December
My plan for this lesson, is to start on my animation and start on creating the loop of the ground, clouds and the sun so that I can then start on the walking cycle and the animations of my character's facial expression and different things dropping from the sky.
Review of lessons plan
This lesson, I managed to achieve everything I set myself, I didn't really run into any major issues with the software and using it, everything worked the way I wanted. The only thing that took me extra time was making the timing good and not making the animations too quick or too slow. Other than that, everything else was pretty simple and easy to do for me. All that I have left now is to do the walking cycle and the different things falling from the sky.
Thursday 10 December
My plan for this lesson is to finish off my whole animation and have everything finished and checked by the deadline.
Review lesson plan.
Unfortunately, this lesson I ran into a few major issues while making the animation. The issue I had was when animating my walk cycle I didn't at the start know how to change the facial expressions on my character. I didn't have a 100% plan on how to do it. I spent about an hour playing about and the issue was, when copying my character and pasting him onto a new layer and drawing him a new facial expression, it would also change it on the other copy. I did a bit of research and didn't find any solution. I spent the next hour or so playing about trying to find a solution and finally I managed to solve it, doing the exact same thing I did before. Other than that, after fixing this solution I was on a straight road again and was able to finish off my animation before the deadline.
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