mi6011meganfox

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Overall, I am pleased with the outcome of my project, I had a lot of changes throughout my plan for my animation that changed due to feedback to improve my animation. I feel the visual work I provided I feel emphasized the points Ichioka presented. If I had more time on this project I would have hoped to enhance the illustrative visual of my animation, although I feel it appears pencil sketchy like, I feel if I had more time i could have added even more detail to this.

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Final Animation with sound - 

Here I have all my pieces together, it took quite a lot of tweaking to get all the parts to fit with the pace of the speech and for the key moments to match up with the key phrases in the speech. I also had to add two extra small scenes to keep the pace of the animation consistent, otherwise the visuals would not have felt like they matched. I am pleased that I finished all the scenes without having to compromise any of them, with having so many different scenes I was slightly concerned that I may have been rushed on time and would have to rush the quality of some scenes to get them done in time.

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My Hero image has been chosen from part of my animation where the script reads “care for all life” as this visual and message is such a key idea in Ichioka’s work. Her study into regenerative architecture focuses on creating infrastructure that gives back more to the planet than it takes and takes into consideration how it will effect other living creatures other than humans. I chose white font for both the title and the one sentence. I tried out other colours but they all either blended too much into the background or were too overshadowed by the image, I wanted both the image and the text to be somewhat equal in being focal points 

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Last scene - modified

When placing my scene in the animatic and tweaking things along the way, it meant the final scene was too short so to lengthen it I added a couple more moving animals to the scene, I added a chicken that comes out of the coop, a butterfly that comes out of the tree and flies off the right of the scene, then a bird flies from the right to the left and out of the scene. This lengthens the scene without just simply trying to overstretch what I already had.

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Last scene

I am pleased with this scene, it took quite a long time as I wanted the scene to be full of moving parts even though most of the scene is relatively still I wanted it to feel like the homes and ground are moving and living, as this regenerative architecture and regenerative mindset looks at moving forward with everything we do with a care for all life on this planet rather than just humans as this selfish behaviors leads to demise. I added in the ducks in the pond so we can see examples of animals co-living alongside humans in this community.

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Second ‘filler’ scene. The line “taking positive action” my scene of a person watering plants was too short and I didn’t want to just extend that scene. Therefore, I thought I could continue from the first scene where someone is watering plants they are growing to create food that cuts out eating from big corporations that use chemicals on their plants and vegetables, the next scene shows them reaping the benefits from watering and growing the plants, they now have carrots they can use for food, that they haven’t bought from a chain supermarket, therefore they’re not supporting big companies where they don’t know where their money is going and who it is supporting or hurting.

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This first ‘filler’ scene I felt was needed as once I placed some of my animated scenes in there was a slight gap where the script says “paradigms that are hurting us and other life on earth”. My last scene was looking at a brain as this physically shows these negative mindsets that are spoken about. Therefore this brain then morphs into an earth that has a crack in it to indicate that we are breaking the earth, how this is hurting us and the other animals and life that inhabits earth.

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Throughout my creation of my scenes, I have been piecing them together in Premiere Pro alongside the audio. I am working through the scenes and have completed quite a lot of it now. Piecing them together has helped me see what scenes needed to be longer/ shorter. For example the first scene moved too quickly, not in pace with the audio, therefore I added ,pre frames and the scene then flowed in time to the words we were hearing. However, I have found some gaps. A scene in the middle highlighted above didn’t quite last as long as o thought it would and it leaves quite a large gap in the visuals, to fix this I will be adding another scene rather than just trying to make the scene we already see last longer as it would feel too stretched. The same with a scene at the end.

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Watering plants scene - I like the different colours of the plant pots in this scene and the line highlights on both the pots and the leaves of the plants. The person taking their time to water these plants makes it clear that they are changing their ways to find a new personal agency, taking care of other living things than themselves.

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This scene provides a turning point in the protagonists life. We see them viewing this book online, learning about how to change their life for the better and how to begin to help what’s around you too instead of your main focus being on yourself. They then take action from this new-found knowledge as they turn off the computer to go outside and begin to care for some plants.

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After the transition we move to the brain that enters the scene, the brain is as rotten as the background it is on. The colours moving from the healthy blue background filled with trees and bushes to a background empty of life all except a dying brain. It’s rotten thoughts and lack of thought for new and improving ideas slowly killing its colour.

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This transition moves from a light colour to a more darker, dim grey colour. I had to alter the speed as the transition moved too slow from one scene to the next scene. I used the same transition more than once in this animation as one scene moved to the next with sketchy chunky lines that bring in colour from the next scene, introducing it to the viewer.

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This scene took a bit of tweaking to get right, but the finished product works. This scene shows the creation of the book, visualising thinking about their ideas and refining them.

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Creating the transition between the crowd scene and the chrysalis on the tree, I had a butterfly moving through the one scene to the other. This creates the change into the next scene and helps the viewer follow what is happening

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Butterfly anatomy -

Rather than flapping their wings up and down like birds, butterflies contract their bodies making a slanted figure eight pattern with their wings. As the butterfly's body contracts, the motion pushes air under their wings, effectively propelling it through the air. The butterfly does not follow a set path. As a result, the motion of a butterfly is described as random. Random motion has no specific path. It suddenly changes its direction. The lilting, fluttering flight of a butterfly evokes whimsy rather than efficiency or purpose, but a new study reveals the mechanics of the insect's less than linear flight pattern and suggests it may help them evade predators. A butterfly vibrates its wings to increase the metabolic rate within its thoracic (wing) muscles. This activity warms the wing muscles, enabling the butterfly to fly away at a moment's notice. butterfly wings are much thinner than a fingernail. These thin, light wings help the butterflies float and fly through the air.

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