Animation Motivation Report

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The goal for the result of this project was to make an animation longer than 30 seconds and the animation was to tell a story in which a certain audience will understand. Ways in which accomplishing this goal was challenging was how much attentive commitment was needed for even small portions of the project. Parts of the animation were going to need more focus and it was important that little to no mistakes were made on transition frames.
Personal experiences, interests, and ideas that make my product important to me is the cartoonish element. With lack of seriousness and silly childhood memories of watching late night Boomerang or Tom and Jerry I found this topic interesting to approach and go into further detail of the parts

The many insignificant and unimportant details about animation were from analyzing cartoon clips and small videos on YouTube; many of which do no actual justice in displaying all the hard work and time commitment behind the scenes. Art class knowledge helped, however, wasn’t as applicable with the specific style I chose to use. With average basics on how to draw and artistic abilities from a 5th grade class it was clear early on that to create an animation that would reach the set goal would need to be a lot of commitment and time management. The main source used to create the animation was the YouTube video by Alan Becker that explained the 12 Fundamentals to Animating. Although, his schooling background is unknown, Becker has been making credible YouTube videos for years with other professionals and companies. His tutorial videos on his separate channel are of more informational quality to inform others of various animation techniques. To make your animation appear more interactive and alive he mentions in his 12 Fundamentals to animating video that it would be required that even just one of his techniques were

My deeper knowledge and understanding of the topic now comes from the research I have done and the hard work contributed. The knowledge I gained and understand of Global Context affects me personally and mentally because I personally now want to learn about the hard work that goes into everyday overlooked jobs and mentally I am more understanding of the background work to jobs that appear easier than they are.. I have grown as a learner in the MYP program by becoming more knowledgeable on how hard it is to animate something. If animating is truly your passion then you should go for it, but I have become more open-minded about that. I don’t think I ever truly thought that animating was going to be this stressful and that you have to be strong-minded to not get too lost in your own thoughts about if people will see your hard work as well enough.After completing this project I have a whole new level of respect for those who animate as a professional and those who have to sync the pictures with audio that they have to put