responsive collaborative: animating

Animating has been... an interesting process.

I've learnt a lot and am really thankful for my group teaching me new skills. The video timeline feature in Photoshop seems like a more effective way of animating than frame timelines, even without video footage, and I can see myself using this in the future! Whilst I don't have plans to continue animating at quite the rate I have been for the last few weeks, it's useful knowledge and good to know as gifs and moving image in digital formats become more prominent.

points and observations

We've been working up until the last minute, even though we've all been working hard. It suggests we could have planned more, but I'm not sure. Maybe we should have planned something less complicated. Still, it's been do-able... with some super long hours!

I think we could have planned more, i.e. with the clothes design but we prioritised time for planning. It seemed to have gone ok though!

The animations could look more cohesive, we agreed on a *style* of bold and fun patterns, and agreed on ones we liked from each other's designs but maybe we could have set a house style on other things, such as colour palette.

My animations at least are very wobbly! I think this effect is called 'boiling'. It's not really a strength or a weakness, and stylistically I think it looks quite nice, quite interesting. It's not meant to look real!