The Underwater Forest

The Underwater Forest

-the background animation 

What is Multiplane animation?

Multiplane animation was first made by using the multiplane camera, which was made by Ub Iwerks. The multiplane camera is a motion picture camera used in the traditional hand drawn and hand inked animation process. Walt Disney used the maltiplane camera to produce the beloved film, Bambi.  The multiplane animation camera  moves multiple pieces of artwork past the camera at various speeds and at various distances from one another.The multiplane camera allows a background to look more 3 dimentonal. 

How this animation was made?

Most of this animation was made in Photoshop. I first stared by making an artboard with the demintions of 10000*1080px. Once the artboards' demintions were set, I set vertical guides by turning on rulers. These helped me divide up my art board into "frames." I then made many layers for the moon, the sky, the water and four floor layers. I named each layer:background, moon, water forground, midground, secend midground,and closest ground. I then ilistrated the trees on the diffrent grounds using the paint brush tool. I also used the burn tool to make the swerly lines on the trees to make them look more life like. Once I finished drawing out the layers I save it and send it to Adobe After Effects. In After Effects all I had to do was use the postion key fames and move each layer across the screen on how I wanted it to look like and how fast I wanted each layer to go by adjusting the key frames. Once that was done, I was able to render it out as a video. Finaly I put it onto Youtube.     

    

The Animated Marcher Walking Cycle

Animated Marcher Walking Cycle

The Project Overview

The animated walking cycle project all started with a sketch of a made up figure with two lags or a human, I chose to make a human. I got my inspiration for making her outfit from my schools' marching band program, where I play the flute. Once the sketch on paper was done, I took a photo of the drawing and sent it to my computer through email. Once I received the email I put the photo into Adobe Photoshop. In Photoshop I selected each limb of my person. I copied and pasted each one into different layers. I cleaned up each of the pieces. Then I found a real life photo of a terf field and edited it to my liking. That photo was then used for the background. Next, I put all of the layers into Adobe After Effects. In After Effects I first parented all the limbs to the mid-section. I made the lags move by using the position and rotation key frames. I also wanted to make the caps move along with the lags too, so I used a little of rotation and some position key frames. I made a new composition with all of the leg and cap movements. Then I made a shadow using the shape tool and parented that to the movement composition. I made a Nall object and parented that also to the movement composition. Finally, I used the position key frames to make my marcher march across the screen  and I added some text to. Once everything was finished I rendered my animation and posted it on to YouTube.  

What I learned

I learned another way to make a shadow. To make a shadow this new way, I just made a shape layer. Then I turned the opacity down and decreased the hardness. I also learned how to use the text tool by just making a text layer. I learned that animation takes a long time to do and can be very challenging. I also learned that not just one thing is happening during a good animation.  

What I Need To Improve And Keep The Same

 I need to improve some of my fixes on the background that now stands out badly. I would have liked to have had more time to animate the arms to go up and down. The lags walking went very well but it was very time consuming. I would have liked to have been able to make a different background or have been able to add more to the background. Overall, it turned out to be pretty nice and I can't what for the next project.