Animation Test Reflection

Today was a productive day. I was initially very intimidated by the thought of producing 600 frames collectively as a group. I was feeling overwhelmed with drawing 200 pictures, but after today, it went a lot quicker than I realized. At first I was terrified of the sand animation, but after working on diligently for awhile, it seemed pretty easy. We were trying to animate this heart beating, then splitting, and then transforming into two faces. Unfortunately, we got cut off, and for whatever reason our entire animation except for the the last few frames were not included in the export video. Which kind of sucked because I wanted to see the results and note if we needed to tweak anything. After a while we moved to the guache station. I didn't know if we were supposed to do something new or continue on with what the previous group created. We just started altering the paint that was already there. Again, I was surprised at how quickly we were going through each frame. I was starting to gain confidence. I think our animation looked cool because we altered what was already there rather than adding pain to the image. I wish we had more time to let Cori finish her wolf. Next, we went to the charcoal station and began modifying what was already there. It went rather smoothly except someone forgot to actually press the shutter on the camera towards the end. We may have been moving a little faster than we needed to.
Overall, I got more comfortable the more I actually started getting into the process. I feel better about the project now, and since we'll be primarily be working from my home, I feel even more comfortable.