Animation GIF

The idea for my animation was made on the spot. I saw the skeleton
and thought to myself, “What if I gave the skeleton a heart.” But just adding
the heart felt too simple and plain so I added in the worm. I knew I wanted the
worm to crawl out of the heart but gave up making the whole worm, so I just
made the heart combine with the worm. When choosing the elements and
principles of design I tried to focus mostly on color, shape, and scale. I wanted
the worm to stand out in color and be complimentary to the heart. I also
wanted the heart to stand out but in shape and that is why I made it bigger
than the worm. Compositionally I tried my best to keep everything centered.
The challenge I faced was trying to plan out the animation itself and figuring
out how I can loop it. To me, animating is somewhat of a troublesome process
especially when it comes to something like looping. Animating is one of those
things that you have to use your imagination for instead of referencing
something to make it. You have to plan things frame by frame and that is what
throws me off. When it comes to doing something from my imagination, I have
an idea of what I want to do but no idea how to execute it. I just did everything
on the spot and hoped it looked right. Overall, I feel proud of doing the
assignment in general because I honestly had no idea what I wanted to do for
it or the stuff I did want to do. I did not know how to execute it, so I am happy I
produced something at least even if it was on the spot. I feel particularly proud
of figuring out how to get the worm off screen. Even though it was confusing,
making a stop motion animation was fun and I hope I can do it again one day.
I mostly fell short in keeping the skeleton in the same position consistently
throughout the animation, and I feel like I fell short making the worm look like
a worm and combing it with the heart. I wish it looked more uniform rather
than smushes together. In future projects I will try to find a way to keep my
object still and try my best to not move the camera by accident. The most
feedback I got about my animation was that the skeleton starts close and then
goes further back in other frames rather than staying up close the whole time.
And the string on the skeleton's head showed up in one or two frames which
was distracting. And the heart should have been more defined or there should
have been a few more frames showing the heart more defined. Overall, I
enjoyed this assignment although I had some trouble wrapping my head
around the animation process.