Finalising Animation

I found out today that one of my teammates is not going to be here on Tuesday and Wednesday so considering that the final crit is on Thursday, we need to get the animation completed today. 

I had been looking at the free music archive for potential music for our animation. We wanted something upbeat that sounded summery and festival themed. I searched through themes like pop, country, indie pop and folk, I thought indie pop was the most appropriate and when I messaged my teammates to make sure we were on the same page, they agreed. I was finding it really hard to find a song that was just right so after narrowing down a search term, I left it until I could meet my teammates in the studio so we could decide on which one to use. There was only a limited list and very few of them were appropriate. We did find one called 'Kiss' which had no lyrics and was upbeat and summery after a short intro which we could easily crop out. 

We added this to our animation and then moved onto adding some pig snorting noises. We wanted some snuffling sounds to play at the point where the pig is sniffing at the different parts of the scene. I knew that the sounds on the British Library website were royalty free but I did not realise you need an account to access them, we didn't have time to go through the process of setting one up so we used a different website instead. The results we found were similar so this didn't matter too much. 

We had a few issues with the rendering of our animation. We had to get someone from technical support to help is with this because the file wouldn't play the same as we had viewed it on aftereffects. It was something to do with our two sound files being different formats, it has a similar effect to having two clashing frame rates. 

We finally got it complete. I think the outcome is ok, it gets the idea of the campaign across but I can't say I'm happy with the execution of the animation as a whole. The framing of the image seems very bottom heavy, the models themselves are not high quality and the overall look of it doesn't seem professional. The idea was that we would use some stills or aspects from the animation on our other products alongside some graphic design elements and drawings where necessary. I feel reluctant to use the images from the animation in the rest of the things we are making but I feel we now have to if the product range is all going to work together and this is what my teammates are doing with their share of the work.

Myself - Festival Cup

Sophie - Beer Mats

Emma - Posters, festival pack.