Animated Life Lessons

Alina Puig and Sophia Gregory were my teammates for this project. Alina Puig is a perfectionist who over achieves in anyway possible. Sophia is a quiet, smart, energetic person who is very sure about everything she does. In our film, these traits are portrayed because Alina and Sophia are feelings that are actually inside my head. Alina is fantasy who always wants more always wants something different. Sophia is reality who thinks that everything is okay just the way it is. Make the similarities between real life and the animation.

We use humor in our story by, as you can tell by the plot, confusing the characters to make them seem ridiculously funny. They're feelings they only think or feel about what they are labeled as. But when they switch they are confused and scared and not used to doing what they do. Our story's message relates to our audience because people everyday are trying to be someone different for someone and sometimes some people go to far or do it too much. Our story teaches that it's ok to be different and yourself and you instead of fitting in all the time. Like Dr. Seuss said "Why fit in when you were born to stand out.".  

Considering that me, Sophia, and Alina have never worked before our productivity was very low when it came to animation. I think it was because we were very effortless to have each scene done within an hour, which is the amount of time we had for each period. But when it came to editing we were decently productive. Our team's biggest challenge was getting things done because in animation I had the most frames and number of seconds to animate and I didn't do very well. When I was not even halfway done with my scene they're almost done. Our best moment in production was coming together after the final product and saying it's okay if we made mistakes, it's ok if we are slow at animating because we are a team and we are done.

Character Development

Hi guys, my GT teacher has told us that some eight graders that are also in GT have posted a video that has been posted and published and are now in the final 25 out of 600 videos that were published in this program called No Bull. Please Click here and when you do, go to the bottom and click on vote. Thank you, and please promote this video as much as you can.   

I am the type of person that's different than almost everybody. I like being different because it helps me stand out of the crowd and like I said I'm weird and I like standing out of the crowd. Some humorous imperfections about me are that like I said I'm weird I'll go all out in spirit week. Also, one thing about me is that I take almost everything really seriously unless they actually tell me that it's a joke before they say it. Overall, I'm a bystander to some people, I'm a weirdo to others, and I'm a friend to the most important. 
   

The character traits I plan to exaggerate while animating is to act like I'm trying to impress everybody but not get to cocky and gangster like. I'm also the kind of person that is worried about what everyone else is thinking. I don't know why I think I've just been a person who has always been like that. Some people think that it's a bad thing, honestly I don't, but sometimes I'll worry too much and end up making a fool of myself. I have been trying to get rid of it, but I just have to think what other people think. I plan to animate this by being a little bit have my head down and not try to anything to fancy in my animation.

To animate a GIF animation in Photoshop is you need to is first take a picture of yourself and in Photoshop use the quick selection tool to make a cut out of yourself. Then, crop out your background so that it's only a picture of you. But later, you'll have to put in a background if you want to have a good background. After that, you make the character move with puppet warp in each animation frame. I like my animation because I do a hilarious and girly movement that is so funny.