DV2900 The Chase (Digital 2D Animation) - Critical Review/Evaluation

Production Evidence

I have kept a few screenshot for when I was doing the project and to show the different stages that my final clips went through.

Here i have used a silhouette of the City of Paris and used Classic tween to pan across the city. I then exported it and named it as my first scene

I then hand drew a destroy city of Paris which show an animation of a monster chasing a man. and this man starts doing parkour,

I then moved on to rotoscoping the clip, which i have edited using after effects different plugins and played around with the brightness and contrast  and came up with a hand drawn effect.

Using premier pro i compile all the videos, sound effects and soundtrack, I made sure that i rendered it out using the pixel size 1280x720 alongside exporting it as a .mp4 file. During the rendering process I have learnt experience in timing the sounds and using volume gains and reduction to create further effects.

Critical Review and Evaluation

After finishing my final 2D animation I have gathered some feedbacks from different people and they have mentioned that the rotoscope footage seemed irrelevant as I didnt show enough relation within the second scene where the monster is chasing the man, In order to fix this I can show the monster literally chasing the man. However they liked the use of sound to portray that the monster is actually chasing the man. It is also mentioned that drawing and rotoscoping each frames was worth it as it captured the movement of the protagonist.

Another downside to my final animation is that it tends to switch to different styles, I have never really captured one style, and in order for me to do this, I will have to limit the colour palette and the different types of brushstrokes I use. The audience didn't really like the fact that the clip just straight away turns black with the sounds on, they've mentioned that it would have been better if i faded the last scene to black. However in my defence i straight away went to black as violence was about to occur which was the monster finally catching the man and eats him.

All in all during this project I have learnt a lot about myself and the different types of way i can approach certain aspects of my animation. Also i have learnt that maintaining one style is very important when it comes to audience relating to my work.

Grungy style for town with monster shows anarchy after the clean town just before
- Footage seems irrelivent without something to link them I.e. assassins seeing the monsters off the roof
- Drawn assassin looks like a lot kf time went into it -and #&#% me, it pays off !