day 11 - project

My group started working on our animation project today. At the start of it, we had originally planned to animate it with charcoal and sand, but seeing that Maura’s group also wanted to animate their project with charcoal, our group decided to just animate the entire film with sand. It sounded like a daunting task, but since our film required the use of color, sand was our best option. We also planned who would animate each of the three stages of the storyboard. I went ahead and started animate the first stage, which showed the formation of the character, Pilgrim, and his acknowledgment of his own existence. Natalie served as the “director”, while Knox acted as the camera operator or in this case button pusher. We wanted to use black sand like before, but due to limited resources, we went with blue sand instead. It was quite a job just to animate a single frame at a time, and trying to animate the character perfectly for that matter. Unfortunately, Natalie had to leave early, so it was just Knox and I left to finish up as much as we could. After we took 200 pictures for my stage of the storyboard, Knox went on and began to animate the second stage, while I took the pictures this time. We had gotten around 207 pictures before taking a lunch break at Chick-Fil-A around 3:00. When we came back, we started again and moved along quite nicely, ending up with about 273 pictures before calling it a day for today. Tomorrow we can hopefully finish up with the project and then add sound effects later on.