My final Animation.

Im really happy with my final animation, I really like opening title part of the animation, which fits into the Magazine and insect themes in this animation.

However I feel that the even thought the idea was inspired from my music, with the development and changes made to the initial idea this final animation does 100% fit in with the music.

Animation Opening...

This is the opening I have made for my animation, I decided on the title of 'Paper Play'.

I cut out a shape which was one half of the butterfly form, and scanned it into photoshop where i created these letter forms. the animation is simple but adds a little more fun to the opening.

Post-it Style Animation Practice

I still wanted to investigate with other methods of animation, and I really wanted to try out this kind of animation because I found some really interesting and elaborate examples on youtube during my research process, and I just wanted to try it out in a simple way.

Symmetry Text...

Playing around more with the idea of symmetry and with the development of the text aspect of my animation, I have created these possible variations on the idea, and how I produced them.

  

First, I cut out a stencil that I could use to get an accurate shape for the letters, then I picked two pages from the magazine to make the into the 'The End' letters, once this was finished I took a photo that I could use to adjust in Photoshop (Scanning will allow for a better finish when creating the actual final message).

This first design has all the background removed, this allows the text to be even easier to read and distinguish,  and it still looks like a butterfly form.

This form has been skewed so that it has a more natural positioning and with match better with the angles used in my animation.

This still has some of the background remaining and this makes the shape of the butterfly more distinguishable but the text is slightly harder to read.

Symmetry.

The thing that everyone knows about butterfly is that their wing patterns are symmetrical, which is why I wanted to try to recreate this with these two origami butterfly forms.

I think these two butterfly forms look good, but they can never be symmetrical when making them with pages of a magazine... which is why I have altered them in photoshop.

These butterfly forms look better now and although it isn't something I can recreate in my animation it is a method that I could possibly use in the generation of the text aspect of my animation.

Text Development...

Trying out other methods and possible ideas for how I will present the text aspects of my animation I have produced two more simple ways that I could so.

This methods looks good still, but with the flashing of this animation it looks a little frantic... I like the type made with the magazine pages and it will tie in well with my animation. could do with further development.

This method is just simple handwriting and would be good for a hand-drawn animation but not as well suited to my style of this animation.

I'm still not quite sure what I will call my animation, which is why it is difficult to chose a method of presenting the text. However I know that at the end it will say 'The End' so its an easy place to start.

Text Text Text

Of course my animation need to have some text, simply to give the title and other basic info. It only needs to be simple and obviously easily readable.

To demonstrate my exploration I created this mini animation...

There is no reason why I cant have fun with animating the text aspects of my video, and I know I don't want an ordinary computer typed intro. to my animation.