Week 7A

Ths class was spent finishing our animations since the final is due next class. The most helpful thing about this class was being able to get direct feedback, this was very important since this would be that last chance before submitting for the final critique.

Overall I am happy with how this turned out an I have learned so many new skills that I will be able to apply to future projects. I really do feel as if this project was something that boosted my animating confidence, and I am looking forward to bring these skills to other classes.

Week 6 Outside of class

This weekend I was finally able to perfect having my words written in. So the hardest thing that I had to figure out was how to get the script font write in correctly now this was had for many reasons the main one being I didn't have access to the original font used, so I would now have to have it draw in solely off of the logo. I tried many things to achieve this.

The first thing I tried was rewriting the font with the paintbrush since that creates strokes. Now the main reason I knew I had to have a stroke was due to the example in in class that stuck in my head. so when I used the paint brush, I was also manipulating the points to get them as close as possible. Now, this was extremely hard and just looked lumpy.

After that failed I was trying to think of how I could get the image traced the image to work so I looked to the internet for logos reveling. Now, this was not a simple search since most of the logos were combined with shapes and not a script font. Eventually, I found a video that showed exactly what I wanted.

After watching the video I was able to apply the same principles to my Illustrator files. The biggest issue I ran into was having overlapping elements and not having them run into each other and be revealed prematurely. The solution to this problem was making them on the same illustrator file, then deleting one half and saving and vice versa. I did it that way to ensure that they would still line up correctly.

Week 6B

This class I was looking to revise my storyboards even more. I needed to really dig deeper and figure out how things would work when it came to the elements appearing. The main point of the scoring was to show the actions that each element would have. The main element that i revised was the chocolate moving and when it would appear. Instead of having it be in at some random moment it will now be in for the whole duration of the animation until the strawberry joins the letters. Another thing I was thinking about was the simplicity of the single strawberry, and that's not what the company was about. Sharis berries makes a number of things so I decided to include many of those things. So I made a bunch of little elements to trickle down in the background.

Some of the elements that I made where a pretzel stick, cashew, chocolate truffle center, caramel truffle center and a cherry. I kept them all rather simple so they wouldn't take away from the strawberry.Also, another important thing with these elements is that the only one that will be coming back up from the chocolate.