Finished and handed inn :)

Today we had our last minutes to work on the assessment, and the time was really worth it. We would never have been finished If we wouldn't have gotten that time. 
It has been very fun to work with Seiya, she's a lovely person and we always enjoy ourselves when we work together. I would love to work with her again. 
The project itself was also very cool. I have never done animation before, but I will for sure try it again. I would have loved to get better at it. 
The animation video we made now wasn't the best and it could have been improved greatly by only having a better recording system and be in a place where we would not be disturbed. 

I think for the first time, the project went very well and I'm very happy. 

 - AJ

Last lesson with animation

This lesson we had to work on the animation part of the unit. we had all the photos and everything, and now all we had to do was to put them together and make a film. I had used a lot of time before to try to find a program that would be good for the animation part of it, and I found a program called PENCIL. It was very good, but the problem was that is was best for drawing on the computer if we were going to add all the pictures we had it would take ages, since we could only upload one and one picture, and in addition to that they all had to be Bitmap photos. To convert all the photos one by one was also out of the question. So therefore we found out that it was much better to use windows movie maker that was far good enough for our animation video.
We really got far with the editing and making the video. The only thing we have to do now is really to add the voices and we are done.  

- AJ

Taking pictures

This weeks lesson went really well again. We did everything to the right times. We were able to take all the pictures that we needed for the whole story that we are animating.
Even though we did not really need a lot more time we got an extension to work with the product. Therefore next week we will work with making the short video with all the effects and voices. 

- AJ

Moving forward

Last lesson Seiya and I worked hard to get finished with all the props. There wasn't a lot that had to be done, but there were some small details that we wanted to add in order to make the story a bit funnier. Like the barking slug and all that stuff. 
The goal was to finish all the props in this lesson and we were very successful. We even got to try to start taking pictures of the different scenes and how we had to do things. It was really fun, and we got results. 
Next lesson we will start fresh and get the animation going. 

- AJ

Forming, cutting and drawing

Today Seiya and I used the whole two Art lessons to create all the figures that are going to be in the story. We worked very hard and got a lot done. Everything seems to go very well, and if we keep up the pace next week as well we will be ready to start the picture taking faster than we know it. 

- AJ

Forming the story

In today's lesson we finally got to start working on our stories. We chose that we wanted to make dolls with pins stuck trough their arms, legs, and head so that they can easily move. We also found out that we wanted to make one background that will be in the film the whole time and the only thing that will change is the items that go onto the background. So the setting is very easy to change without using lots of time. 
We were very pleased with the progress we had done today.

Anmation unit

Today we got introduced to our new unit Animation. It was very exiting since we have never done this before and it will be very different to all other art lessons we have had so far. 
So we had to start finding ideas about what the animation story would be about. Or guiding line was that we had to make a short video that lasted for around 3 min about an event that occurred in 2011. 

Seiya and I then agreed that we wanted to make a video about the discovery of the new planet.