Here is my final project! I learned a completely new program from scratch just do to this (Adobe Character Animator). Honestly, it felt very user friendly which I loved and I was able to catch on quickly. I then put this into after effects to add a few things in and I love the way it turned out!
Unfortunately, the creator of Spongebob did pass away recently, which makes this typography project even more sentimental. I loved spongebob growing up, so incorporating the best song of the series into after effects and adding some fun animations to it was a blast!
I definitely enjoyed doing this in after effects. I have really started to like the program and how easy it is to do simple animations like this. I hope I get to do more things like this in the future!
I picked one of my favorite video game characters to act out this one for me. I tried to go with a retro style here to make it feel like you were playing a game that came out in the 90s. However, this did lead to it being a bit choppy, but that's what 90s animation was like for video games!
Again, 2D animation which I'm not a huge fan of. I could barely draw the peanut to begin which, which definitely wasn't a fun way to start. Walk cycles aren't too fun to begin with, so adding the hand drawn portion to it made it less fun for me.
I definitely did not have a fun time doing this. I am poor at drawing in general, I can honestly barely stay inside lines when tracing something. So, I obviously struggled with this project. However, it was still an interesting way to interpret video footage that I have not done before.
I tried to go for something very cute here as this was my "character appeal" project. I got the sea turtles from Michael's and just tried to make them look as cute as possible! I enjoyed this one a lot more than the bouncing ball one.
This was an interesting project to undertake! I have never worked with stop motion before so it was fun trying to get all the timing down and everything like that. However, it was definitely difficult as I didn't realize how fast I was progressing through the video so I had to reduce the frame rate drastically! Overall, it was a fun first project of the year.
