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Final Animation

Evaluation

What went well:

My animation is the most complex animation I have made so far, I have become more confident and improved on my 3D modelling skills within Cinema 4D. I have learnt how to use new tools within the software e.g. spline tool and hair material tool. I have also learn’t more about the different types of lighting to use in the software specifically the physical sky option and how important lighting is when rendering scenes.

I am happy with how my animation turned out, and that it involves lots of different types of scenes which demonstrates my technical skills. From feedback of the animation it seems to communicate it’s message well about the need to live sustainably.

Weaknesses/ places to improve:

I would off liked to make the on a walk scenes more realistic and detailed by having large trees covered in leaves in them but my laptop wasn’t able to handle this and would freeze when I used the hair material (I needed for the leaves) too much. I need to fix my laptop problem so I can carry on being more ambitious with my animations and create more detailed scenes.

I could improve in small places by adding slightly more details to the animations, for example in The living room scene with the burger I could off used after effects to edit something onto the tv screen to make it look like the tv was playing a show.

Also if I made my own audio instead of getting audio off the internet I could make the audio match my animation perfectly and match it more to each scene. However I still think that audio that I have used goes well with my animation.

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Process

Editing the animation together

Images of me editing the animations together in Premier pro

For the titles I used the first image of each scene and blurred it slightly so the text would stand out more. I played around with a few bold fonts to see which one I liked the best. I picked the font because it was bold and easy to read but the letters are also slim so they don’t take up the whole of the image in the background meaning when I faded the blurred image to start the animation playing it looked better being able to see some of the background first.


Image if my two different title designs, I was comparing the two different fonts.
Images of the titles being made
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Choosing sound for the animation process

When sketching my animation out I was already thinking about what sound could go with each scene. For example for the burger scene I planned that with the head nod looking at the burger someone would say “ooooohhh yeah”.

I got feedback that adding sound to the animation would really add to the atmosphere of it and go well with the point of view aspect of it. Especially for the in a cage scene and the deforest scene adding sound to the visuals would really push the message of the effects of living unsustainably. Adding the animal noises to the cage scene made the scene make more sense when watching it and same with hearing a chainsaw in the deforest scene.

For the background music I chose a song that has an optimistic sound to it as I don’t want my animation to be a video that scares people and makes them feel hopeless about climate change. I want it to make people think about how they are living and inspire them to take the advice in the video and act towards living more sustainably.

I tried to make the audio match up well with the visuals for example when the words came on screen I made the audio appear at the same time, also when the the bottles disappeared I added a plastic bottle dropping sound at the same time.

I got my audio off the internet as when I tried to record my own my microphone wasn’t good enough to get clear audio.

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