Crime Awareness Animation

After working and a lot of stumbling (there were some technical issues with hardware in that my tablet literally fell apart on me during animating), I finally managed to complete this project. Despite being complete, I had to axe a section that I had previously planned to include in the storyboarding stage. Clearly this is an indication of time issues and speed of working, which for me is generally slow. I anticipate this will improve with time and practise. Also, it is a case of anticipating more from myself than what I can do in the time frame outlined.

Additionally I would like to say that the scenes present need more frames to smooth out the movement, but doing so at the time would only have lead to missing the deadline and affecting the next project. This is further proved by the majority of movement being toward the edges of the frame, rather than taking centre stage. Although, doing so may have sated my perfectionist streak that raises its head from time to time.

Glitches aside, I really enjoyed this project and for the most part I'm both pleased and amused by the overall outcome.

Crime Storybaording

Here are the storyboards for this project. As I was aware that in order to complete this project, I would need to give the animating thereof the majority of my time, I skipped over completing an animatic and went straight for the jugular. As it were.

Knowledge Competition: Crime Awareness

In conjunction with a competition, our next brief was to make a crime awareness video in our latest new platform of animation (for me at least, I'm a complete noob): adobe flash. For this project, I ended up without a synopsis or treatment, despite the pre-production project prior. Instead, I ended up with a scribble sheet, wherein I jotted down ideas for each major crime that afflicts the student age bracket, which could have been reshaped into a synopsis and treatment had I not overlooked them and ploughed right into storyboarding.The majority of the content was based on accounts of things happening to various people, including the funny bits that are meant as a joke. Someone really did take my saucepan.