This is a video showing some behind the scenes of me making my animation with a graphics tablet and a screen recording of me generating the animation and a voiceover explaining what techniques I use to make it.
Techniques I used for the animation and how the animation pad helped me 0:00 - 0:25
The software I used to create the animation and how Animation Desk works 0:26 - 0:47
Certain Techniques I used and which frame-rate I used 0:48 - 1:29
P6: Complete and edit the animation content in line with the plan
This is my finished animation for the Progress Arts Festival Weekend to introduce their app or to be shared on social media. If it was displayed on the app it would have to be put in horizontally so you could see the full picture. The video is one minute long because that is was the brief asked me to create and I felt that for a video targeted at a younger audience, it is best to keep it short to keep their attention.
The music in the video is from Incompetech - Tracks: To the Ends & Funin and Sunin
Editing the Animation
This is a video of me exporting then editing my video on Final Cut Pro, putting in titles and also adding sound
Exporting the animation: 0:00 - 0:28 Adding more of the colours: 0:29 - 1:07 Adding the title screen: 1:08 - 1:40 Adding Sound: 1:41 - 2:37
M3: Optimise the content for use in the final animation
Video with voiceover describing how I optimised the content and finished export for the client.
File sizes being optimised I exported the animation form the animation software at the highest quality because I wanted the colours and visual to look as good as they could. My animation was 24 fps which wouldn't be good for the file size because there are more frames to be included however, I feel that the quality was much better and the animation flowed nicer with 24 fps. Once I had finished the editing in final cut, I then exported that using H264 this is because it is really good quality however, minimises the file size so the product can be distributed a lot easier.
Frame Optimisation As I said I created my animation to be 24 frames per second, I chose this because it is what is usually used and I feel like it flows better and makes the animation look a lot cleaner and less stop/start. The only problem with this is that I had to make a lot of frames because it was 24 frames each second and it may make the file size bigger because there is more frames to fit in, it shouldn't be much of a problem though because the animation is so short anyway. I did however, cheat a bit by taking my final animation into final cut at around 40 seconds and duplicated parts to make it a minute long which is what the client asked for.
Colour Optimisation I optimised the colour in my animation by choosing to export it with the highest quality or the software, this ensures that it is as vibrant and engaging as it can be to really grip the audience. The colours aren't pixelated, faded or distorted in any way so it looks as good as it can. This means that the end product looks professional and of high quality.
File compression I thought about file compression when exporting my animation because I wanted the product to be easy to distribute by compressing it and having a smaller file size which can be downloaded and shared. However, compressing a file means taking away some of the quality and cutting things down so I didn't want to do that because then it doesn't seem professional. I guess I compressed my product when I exported it on H264, however, that kept enough of the quality in that I was happy with the choice of format I chose.
D2: Justify the choice of animation technique for the frame rate and duration