That really happened

There are 5 scenes that stand out as being particularly difficult or time consuming for me. The first of which would be the very first scene in the city. I haven't had much practice with using perspective in my drawings so having a camera movement in an animation that required a changing perspective was particularly difficult. It took me a whole day but thankfully I was able to use what I had learnt in my previous year and used a point perspective technique to the best of my ability.   After having struggled with it, I now know this is an area I need to develop and improve in. The next scene that gave me trouble was the rocket scene. What got me stuck was the lighting in the scene and shadows. I overcame this obstacle by adding a translucent black layer and then translucent pale yellow triangles of light on a layer above it and erased parts of it where I wanted there to be shadows and this ended up working so I was pleased with the outcome. The next 2 ...

21st September 2017 Inspirations and viewing Inspector gadget After looking over images from Inspector Gadget and my own animation, I realise that I've taken a lot more inspiration form the cartoon then I had thought. I'd looked at it because I did like the idea of concealing the antagonist's identity before the end and I thought Inspector Gadget did this really well with Dr Claw so I did it with my own character. Little did I know that they also even looked the same. I didn't remember what Dr Claw looked like when I went onto the create your own character site. I also had trouble animating lava so I took to the internet to look for tips when I came across the gif above which helped with the layering and movement of the liquid, splashes and the flakes of ash and sparks flying around. What really helped me was the use of multiple layers for the lava and the fact that the layers are going in different directions and ...

When I first heard that the theme was "This really happened" my mind went straight to the scene from The Invention of Lying ( Ricky Gervais ,  Matthew Robinson, 200 9) where they made a joke about their movies all having to be documentaries based on real events because they were incapable of making anything up or lying.  This is what got me thinking that maybe basing my animation on something real might not be as fun so I thought maybe it would be fun if "This really happened" was actually a catchphrase and from there I came up with ideas of who might use a catchphrase.  I eventually settled on a superhero/supervillain based story and because I like to make things funny, I thought that maybe the superhero's power could be that he insults the villain until he annoys him enough to stop him. Then, because I thought that maybe it should be child-friendly, I decided to use really tame insults that aren't actually too insulting (basically backhanded com...