After Effects Audiovisual Animation

This idea for my animation was actually my backup idea. For this animation I knew I
wanted a frog and a fairy but I didn't know what I wanted them to do. I took a lot of
inspiration from those derpy looking cartoon frogs people draw a lot. For the fairy I
took inspiration from flowers, for her hair I was inspired by violas and for her dress
and shoes I was inspired by lotuses. For the fairy house I took inspiration from
mushrooms and houses with round top doors. For the audio I could not find anything
free for what I wanted. Originally I wanted one of those cartoon crash noises but
despite that I tried to counterbalance that by creating a visual crash. I also could not
find audio that was either fairy like or just super high pitched dialogue. I imagine
fairies as these super high pitched creatures that either do not talk or if they do it's
super incohesive. Overall for the artwork I wanted all of it to have a cartoon feeling
and I wanted it all to have some sort of shading or super soft shading. Two of my
biggest challenges or obstacles I encountered during this assignment was trying to
find audio and trying to animate what I had envisioned with limited animation
features. I am particularly proud of the fairy. Although she is extremely small I am
still proud of the effort I put into the small details in her character design. The only
aspect my animation fell short in is I believe in mostly the audio. I could not find the
audio I wanted. In the future I will try to either find better audio or try to record audio
myself. The overall feedback I got from my peers and my instructor is that my color
choices are nice and they flow very well with one another. Other feedback I got was
about the audio. The broken glass and fairy sound is off putting. For the animation
itself the feedback I got was that when the eyes of the frog open, the closed eyes of
the frog are still visible which is somewhat distracting. Overall I am somewhat in the
middle about this assignment. I liked the process of designing things but when it
came to the animating part it felt somewhat limiting in a way. I don't know if it is
because I did not know how to use the software well or if there aren't that many
animation options on the software itself. I also really struggled looking for audio and
didn't have time to make my own.