Animation Production

With our animation we chose to do a story of how a poor girl stumbles across a magic wand, which had fallen out richer persons pocket, and uses it to get all the things she wish she had. However in the process realises that the rich boy she originally saw and turned poor himself and was using it for the same thing. Even though the animation is only supposed to last 30 seconds with the story we are going to do and the platform we are using to create it there was a high chance it would last longer. 

The animation was made using adobe photoshop and adobe after effects. Firstly we made sketches and drawings by hand on paper which were then later redrawn in photoshop using a bamboo graphics tablet. I then imported the .png files into after effects and animated it from there. The only problem with this was that I was the only one who knew after effects well enough to make the production. However the majority of this was key framing positions, scale and rotation which meant I could do it relatively quickly. 

The final piece came out ok, however if I was going to improve upon this and had my time again there would be a number of things I would change. Firstly I would include some sound, both background music and effects as this would make a big difference for the audience to know what was going on (Eg footsteps for walking). Then I would draw the backgrounds up as did you other artworks as the background and also focus more on little details to make a better animation like the time spent on each frame and the camera angles of shots etc. 
  
I did enjoy making the animation because it let me brush up on a program that I hadn't used it for a while. It also reinforced how complicated animation is and how much I appreciate special effects and motion graphics.