Module Reflection

After four month, I have finished my animation course. It is a great experience for me to learn how to create an animation from zero to two minutes.

From the beginning of this course, flash is the first software I use to make the animation. It took me a long time on the first 15-second sample with using the Flash. However, after the reading week, we started to use Affect Effect that I think it is much more useful than Flash. It is easier and save a lot of time for me to make my final animation. The online tutorial helps me a lot. As the plan below, I was trying to record the sound to connect each plot of my animation, but I found that recording sound will spend a lot of time and it is difficult to create the effect I want. So I try to use the music to run through my animation. And I try to make some plot to fit the rhythm.

Although there is no any practice course in my spring term study, I still want to spend some time on the animation study. And during the long summer holiday I have, I may pick up some drawing class that I could improve my hand drawing skill on the characters.

Project description

The name of the story is ‘Leaving’. Main purpose of this animation is highlighting the love of grandma. The story is inspired by a video called ‘A Grandma’s Love’ that is published by Charles Bernardo’s. It is a story based on part of the video. Grandson will leave to study abroad in the next few days. Grandma felt sad, and she is not willing to see her grandson leave. However, she still made a scarf for him as a gift. Finally, she witnessed the plane take off in the airport.

Most of the elements in ‘Leaving’ are constructed by the primary color. The painting of Piet Mondrian affects me a lot on the use of colors. Most of his paintings use the straight line, right angles and primary colors. As George Maestri said that primary colors among the many possible hues of expression. Visually, primary colors can give a stark contrast to the audience. Audience can easily define each element.

‘Leaving’ is not only trying to present the love of grandma, it also refers to the geographic separation between the younger children and their older parents. Owing to the rapid development of the economic in the urban area, adults are looking forward to living in the city instead of the village. The old parents are more cherish for the fewer meeting between them. Take the children study abroad here as the example is trying to remain everyone to spend more time with their older parents.