Animation Galore!

In this lovely fine morning, it was the level 2's and level 3 students' interview/induction day so the time table was slightly altered to fit our breaks and lunches. When I look at them I can remember the first day I was at this place and now looking at the present I see strong improvements in every aspects, including confidence. This whole day consisted of animation only and we did not do other tasks which was excellent because it means we can make immense progress. However, this means that my blog will be shorter than usual - sorry, though it's still long!

During the first session, we all continued with our animations. Specifically for me, I continued  to animate my assets to motion, which are: character, enemies, and collectables. In the end I managed to finish the first storyboard panel on time, however as the day progressed it meant that I had to document down and analyse my design log; this is time consuming as I reason every important action and decision I make.

My Animation Progress

In the second and third part of the day, I spent my whole time animating the banner to the second panel of my storyboard, so it is now around 40% complete with 60% left as there's always improvement. I performed extra transitions and tried out new techniques. This is because the "Amazing Adam" showed us some inspiration and I managed to get some ideas out of that. I thoroughly enjoyed animation and documenting/analysing my reason as I want people especially the "Amazing Adam" to understand it. I have so much more animation ideas I want to do and analyse. However, my limiting factor is the software at home and will therefore come in on Wednesday to perfect my work.

In the last part of the day we were all getting relaxed. I finished up on a few things and wrote down the review of my day. Today I didn't find anything hard but I found it time consuming, however I know the outcome will be fantastic and I greatly look forward to it. During the self study time, I helped Adam M on his resubmission work and worked on my animation until the point I leave.

Overall I found today very fun and that we all had concentrated incredibly hard. Everyone is making progress and days where we work entirely on one project is very amazing as it can lead to good progression in general. I think the "Amazing Adam" should do this more and I bet he will. Today I learnt regarding about how Adobe Flash works and I am starting to get the basics installed into my brain.