animation

I photographed my animation today. The lighting was rubbish - I've learnt how important it is and I probably should have borrowed some studio lights from college but I only did the animation to experiment with the different editing software available to me so it doesn't matter greatly. I made 12 bird cut-outs each in a slightly different position to the next so when i swapped them each time I took a picture it looked as though the bird was flying. From playing the shots back from my camera the flying movement seemed fairly smooth and fluid but the occasional panning of the camera was not and needed more photographs inbetween. I thought for ages about a good way to shoot a certain scene where the leaves fall off the tree. Now as I had painted the leaves on, I couldn't really take them off again; so in the end I just drew another tree and cut out lots of leaf shapes to animate seperately. I will try to experiment in Flash to see if there is some way of doing it without having to re-draw everything, but I'm not sure how successful I will be. I feel that even though I do learn a geat deal in the workshops I have I could not comfortably use the software on my own with my own images. I might look at some online tutorials to help get my head around tweens and key frames.