After all the development and experimentation I have done, I have settled on my final animation. I have made the final scene end abruptly to match the end beat of the piece of music, and fitted the scenes around the tempo of the track. I am really happy with how my first animation project has turned out, and look forward to developing my skills further. To Zoom or not to Zoom? Print to Pixel Animation. Wednesday, 4 May 2011.

Here is a screen shot of me combining together all the scenes and the music. I had to adjust the timing of some of the scenes just so it could fit in the 20-30 second time margin. Friday, 29 April 2011. Scene 6- stop motion animation.

After the animation sequence was created I had to edit my music to get the 30s I wanted. This was fairly simple to do because I downloaded a free trial of a music editing program. After I had saved this I imported it into my imovie and made sure it lasted the full length of my animation. Making my set and characters. Before I started creating my animation I needed to create a set that was suitable for my idea. I brought multi coloured card sheets which I would use to make everythi.

I decided on this piece as my final design. Saturday, 12 March 2011. Here are my final three choices for my final poster design. After deciding not to use the .

Sunday, 18 December 2011. This blog that Ive found is full of interesting and random items, just incredible, check it out. Wednesday, 14 December 2011. Wednesday, 7 December 2011. Simmons achieves these simple designs though cutting up and re arranging pieces and items of everyday life, when asked about where her ideas come from she mentions the philosopher.

Just realised my animation is 33 seconds long, According to some course mates they have been told it is compulsory to be between 20-30 seconds and theres a risk of failing if it is not within the brief requirements. Below are a few screen shots from imovie where i created.

Thursday, 5 May 2011. The colour explosions in my work are created by squares being thrown at the pinata. I used photoshop again to simply move and decrease the size of the square in each frame to suggest it moving towards the pinata. I also used photoshop to delete the sections of the pinata which had been destroyed by the squares at various points of my animation. After painting on top of my frames I scanned them in and added them to the sequence. Start of hand drawn animation.

Watch Matt Willey, Sue Murphy, Andy Altmann and Massimo Vignellis talks from OFFSET. Tuesday, 22 March 2011. Today we had our dark room introduction where we was shown how to make rayographs. Monday, 21 March 2011. Start of a new project. Friday, 25 February 2011. These are some of the models that i created in the first two workshops with Richard Sweeney although the techniques he showed us look easy it was a different matter when putting the techniques into practice.