Edutainment Animation Progress Report

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Ronney

I have completed and handed in my kids edutainment animation. This project proved very challenging for me because I hadn’t used any modelling or animation program previously and I was new to all the terms and techniques involved in creating such an animation. I had many issues with tweening the movements in the limbs and the mouth. This was a tedious task because the voice-over I recorded and transferred to the computer had to fit with the mouth movements. Although this aspect of the animation was still not perfected, the “dodgy-ness” of the characters movements were humorous and added to the way the animation reflected a childish, or amateur presentation. I intended to make the animation a lot longer than the final product, however I was unable to do this as time time was limited. I made sure the animation was succinct and brief. I think if the animation continued for to long, the young viewers would grow bored of the characters repeated gestures and movements. The pictures of the elephants served as a secondary feature which the children could focus their attention and be entertained with. All in all, I’m very glad to have this project done and complete. I can’t say that I enjoy graphic animation all that much, but if I learn to use it the right way and practise more and more, I suppose Flash would be a very interesting program to use and create short animations in.

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