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This project was the most challenging for me. For this project we were to create a 60 second animation, that was to be more advanced than our previous one, we were also allowed to incorporate cut out objects, if desired. Throughout the process of creating these past two animations, I have discovered that I really do not enjoy doing them. I think the most frustrating part of creating these for me, was the constant draw, and erase process. I used vine charcoal for my most recent animation, as I did in my previous one. Although vine charcoal is very good for erasing, I feel that it can make certain aspects look muddy, and dingy at times. When drawing, I typically prefer to use pens, or inks, or sharpies to create work, but I did not think that would be plausible for this assignment, especially with the gritty look we were going for. From the get go, I knew for this project I wanted to do more of a cartoonish, children's animation. I'm not sure where the inspiration came for me to do a living ice-cream cone.. but if I had to guess I would probably say I was pretty hungry in class that day, and Gucci Mane had just released his new album, which I was listening to (he has an ice-cream cone tattooed on his face). Once I got the basic idea for the animation, I knew I wanted to create a couple of scenes with my ice-cream cone dude. I tried to start brainstorming things that humans do everyday, and transform them into the life of ice-cream. This led to my three scenes being: waking up, a day in the park, and going tanning. Another challenge for me in this project was trying to make my movements smooth. By nature I am a very impatient person, and I like things done quickly, so it was difficult for me a lot of the time, to make sure to take things slowly with drawing each movement. I had constantly remind myself that I could not just draw something from Point A to Point B, but instead had to draw all of the little steps in-between. I ended up having 489 frames (1:09 seconds), because I was really trying to make my transitions as smooth as possible. I used the app I had used for my previous animation, which is called iMotion, and really do enjoy using this app. It allows the user to upload directly to YouTube, and also has some other cool features like using an onion skin. Using the onion skin was especially helpful when trying to create smooth transitions because it lets you see where your previous drawing was, even after you have already erased it. I used this tool when I created my transitions between scenes with my cutouts. My first step was to tape all of my cutouts onto my drawing, one by one each having there own frame. After all of the cutouts were where I wanted, I took a couple snaps of my drawing with all of the cutouts on there. From here I got a new fresh piece of paper, and put all the cutouts from the previous paper, onto the new one. Since I had my onion skin of the previous drawings with the cutouts on there, it allowed me to place the cutouts on the new drawing in the exact same spot. This process was very tedious, as I had to perfectly match up each cutout with the placement of the previous one to have the desired effect I wanted. I looked through my phone screen (where the onion skin was) and would stretch out to place and correctly line everything up in real life. All in all, I am pleased with my animation, and feel that is very successful. If I were to change anything I think I would edit the lighting around, to get rid of the yellowness from my apartment, maybe crop in a tiny bit, and maybe add some music...(maybe Ice Cream Paint Job.. lol pls tell me you know this song) or maybe a cute ice-cream truck tune. I hope there are not any future hand drawn animations in my future, but I am grateful for the opportunity of learning how to do it. Ready for this book project!!

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