Our Animation Story

For our animation project, we chose to base our story on Kaylynn Drake's dancing story. The title of our project is "Kaylynn Overcomes Challenge". We chose this as our title or focus statement because it gives you some details on our animation. A focus statement or title should tell you a little about a story, but not too much. So from the title, you can see that our main character is Kaylynn and she faces a challenge. Our title says she overcomes it. We leave the audience with some questions like, how will she overcome it? What is her challenge? It leaves the audience wondering and they become more antsy to watch it.

I think from our story, our audience will learn that giving a helping hand really helps. It can make a big difference in some things.  In this story we show Kaylynns friend, Lilio, helping her while shes struggling on her dance moves, and in the end they succeed.  And it also shows that even when someone puts you down, don't give up. Prove them wrong and strive to be better. There will be hard times in life, but hey, There can't be a rainbow without a little rain, right? When the teacher is putting Kaylynn down in the story, she seems very down, but in the end, ends up very happy with her success.

With my team, our animation was a very enjoyable project. For me personally, it was one of the easiest with very little to no stress. With an amazing team, Kaylynn Drake, Kuumomi Thompson, and Sophia Rodriguez, the work was completed on time with great quality. We did struggle a little tho. In the beginning of our project, Kaylynn was out of school for a couple days which made it a little hard because she was our main character, but my team and I decided that we would do the stykz and white board animation because we did not physically need Kaylynn. So by the time Kaylynn came back, all we mainly needed to do was the stop motion animation. My team was very productive and handled things greatly. There was some times that we stayed a little into our recess and lunch, but they did not make a deal out of it, they were just happy that our animation was coming out nicely and so was I. i think the best moments was sitting down trying to edit. For many teams, it was stressful, but I think it was fun for us because we filmed only what we needed, so it made it easy to edit and we all got to sit down together and just play around with garage band beats and Imovie. We had a lot of laughters and were very proud with how our final animation came out.

Above is a picture of me working on one of our photoshop animation scenes.

We like to have a little fun during this work to make the project enjoyable.

Kaylynn drake showing Sophia her garage band skills.

Our results: We got the second most votes. 

Animation Outtakes

The animation above was created in photoshop. This was a quick animation I created to refresh my memory on doing these animations, so that I could easily do it on our real animation. In my team, there is Sophia Rodriguez, Kuumomi Thompson, and Kaylynn Drake. I love Sophia because she's really creative and does all of her work with best efforts! I also love Kaylynn Drake because she has a really funny personality and makes the best out of everything. Last but not least, I love Kuumomi Thompson because she makes the group lively and keeps us happy. But she knows when it's time to play and to work. I'm very happy with my group because I know they will make this animation project very, very enjoyable.
For our next project, we will be using a story about one of our teammates life or something that happened to them and show it through animations. We have many different animation types to show our story, like stop-motion, white board animation, stykz, etc. My favorite type of animation is stop motion because it shows real things, but can show unrealistic things happening. For instance, I could show a real human, flying. For stop motion, its basically just a bunch of pictures put together with about 30 frames per second to make it look more like a video than separate pictures. To save some of our animations that we created, we saved it as a .GIF. These files are supremely good at delivering simple animation sequences.

For Our Animation, we chose to use Kaylynn's story about dancing, because it was the most interesting, but it could also show a great story. We thought her story would be great because it's about striving for success and never giving up. We were also trying to show how life is in reality. Many people watch movies and see such perfect things, but on reality, there will be people that put you down, but with true friendship, you can prove those people wrong and show them that they aren't stronger than you.I think the audience should care about our story because of how much people are picked on, and although in our story, the main character gets help from her friend, their may not be someone to help other people, so just be nice and not put other people down.