This week, I will bet talking about my media arts ISU. I’ll be talking about what I created, how I created it, and my goals for the project.
The art work I created was a short 2 minute animation. In the animation, it shows a girl walking to a cafe only to lose her wallet. She spends most of the animation looking for her wallet. Eventually, she finds her wallet, buy some coffee, and the animation ends. The title of the animation is “The Missing Wallet”. I chose the name because that is the main focus of the plot. Some obvious elements in the animation is movement and colour. H
I created my art using photoshop and iMovie. In photoshop, I started by creating the girl. From there, I used frame animation to make minor changes. Using frame animations, I achieved blinking, arm movement, hair movement, and the illusion of walking. After creating a scene in photoshop, I moved exported the clips to iMovie. Once I had all my clips in iMovie, I added sound and transitions to make the animation scenes flow.
Some my main goal of this project, was to create a 2 minute or more animation, do it in an anime art style, and make sure the animation flows. Thankfully, my artwork met all my goals. Initial stages, I was panicking slightly. I barely had the first scene done, I couldn’t see how long my animation was, and the scenes in photoshop looked choppy. However, once I put all the scenes together, I believe I have achieved most of my goals.
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Overall, I have learned many things from this project. I have learned how to use more tools in photoshop like the guidelines or how to mirror object. However, I have learned from many mistakes from messing up countless times. If I were to do a similar project, I believe I could do it much faster and possibly even better. In the end, the project is not what I imagined it to be, but it is close enough to satisfy me.