Week 10a Final Video and Critique

Here is my final video again for critique in class:

Here are the comments I received during critique:

- Strength is in the details
- Elements are consistent
- Made changes that were recommended in previous class sessions
- During the "next spring" scene, it would've been nice to have the letters reflect spring. Maybe they could be green with floral aspects to emphasize the point.
- Change Persephone's arm so it is laying by her side at the end.
- Readability is compromised a little by having the constellation behind Taurus at the end.
- Worked well rhythmically.
- Story was easy to follow.

Week 9 Outside of Class

Over the weekend, I did 2 things: Made some final assets and finished the entire animation. Here are the assets I did:

I ended up deciding to do the voiceover. I didn't want the whole video to be narrated, so I chose key moments and left other moments to be shown through the visuals. I also changed what music I used so it fit better. Overall, I think I came up with a good solution. Here's the final video:

Week 9b

Today for class we were supposed to have our intro sequence made. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do for audio. Professor Pannafino suggested a voice over. I wasn't too keen on this idea but I decided to give it a try in class. Here's the video with a voiceover. There is a blank scene because I would need to add another scene for the voiceover to work.

In this video, you can also see the refilmed scenes and intro. I think it works much better now.

Week 9a

Today in class we went over our first half of the animation. I got some critique which I plan on fixing. My critique was that I should change the destruction scene so there is more puffiness to the clouds, change the farmer so he isn't a silhouette, and keep the flames moving when the scene is transitioning. Also, Professor Pannafino thought it would be better to have the opening title with cut paper words instead of chalk and I agree, so I am going to change that later.

In class I cut out all the letters:

Later I took out the farmer and just had two sheep:

I will have to refilm almost all of my scenes, which I will try to have done by Wednesday.