Redesigned~

My Trotting Creature~

I think this is a pretty successful work of animation that I created. I got the leg movements to work well together and even added some movement and ear flapping in the upper body for a more realistic touch. Although it was a great project it had its flaws. This project worked best for me when it was put into Photoshop because it was easy to fix the smaller things I didn't catch when I first took the pictures. What didn't work so well was trying to take pictures because I had too many small pieces and my creature itself could have been a tad bigger. If I were to do this project over again, I probably would try to keep a consistant lighting, even though it wasn't easy to do with people walking past me most of the time. The most frustrating part of this project, for me, was carefully moving each piece. My creature was split into so many parts that when I moved one, my entire creature shifted in some way and I was forced to spend five minutes putting it back in place. From this piece I learned, that the little things count as much as the bigger things, which is important to remember when working on animating things, otherwise it turns out with gaps and holes in the motion.

Just look at his face~

 

So, I began my trek through the world of animation by cutting out my "pun-tastic" Yellow Hammer and moving it to a new layer, and filling the background up so it looked like I never cut anything out. Then I made multiple copies of the Yellow Hammer, each to their own position and composed frames of them. When put in order and changed slightly for every frame, I was able to create a short animation. I had never used layers on a picture to create an animation before, so it was fun to finally learn. I was given a multitude of different tools to use and it challenged me to think of layer differently than I have before.in order to add something extra, I made the Yellow Hammer hitting a piece of metal sticking from the ground and when he hit it in he  smiled happily. Instead of it staying down though the metal pops up suddenly and the bird becomes surprised and begins to hit it again.

Fluffy Piano

For the Mesh Project, I stayed away from obvious inanimate objects. I decided to use something that reflects music in it as well, since I love music. My cut and pastes are good on the fur and fluffier parts of the animal, but the hoovees were tricky since most were covered up by grass and I couldn't get them to look like the actual hoof, but I cut most straight an the bottom though so It would look more natural, as if the fluffiness covered the hooves. To make it look like the farm critters came from the piano keys I made the sheep and goats long to match the shape of the keys and made some of the keys have the same texture as the them. I also made added some sheep with black and brown spots to make it look like they came from the black keys. I decided to do these two objects because I thought it would be cute to make the piano keys form cute animals and considering that you don't see sheep and pianos together it would be an intresting sight to observe. Since black and White are strong contrast colors anyway I thought it would work well with sheep colorwise, that way I wouldn't have to change the color of the animal to match the piano.

List

Inanimate

• Headphones
• Clothes
• Pie
• Piano
• Music Notes
• Paper 
• Glasses
• Mug
• Computer Monitor
• Guitar
• Stereo
• Lemon
• Tower
• Pizza
• Flamethrower
• Camera
• Numbers
• Alphabet
• Dessert
• Persimmon

Animate

• Duck
• Cow
• Goat/Sheep
• Tree
• Cat
• Dog
• Ant
• Cockroach
• Turtle
• Swan
• Dolphin
• Deer
• Fennec Fox
• Tropical Fish
• Tiger
• Japanese Flying Squirrel
• Flower
• Leaf
• Anteater
• Monkey

I decided to use a Sheep/Goat and a Piano for Mesh project. I think It will look cool to combine them since no one thinks of seeing those to objects close to each other nor it forming into that object. It will give me a chance to use new tools to make it seem less and will let me be able to experiment with different types of patterns and colors.

DeerFox

For my newanimal, I combined a Fennec Fox and a fawn. To try to flawlessly combine their features I added the foxes eye and its ears to the head of the deer and blended the colors of them together so that they looked natural and didn't have jagged spots or edges. To get a lighter colored back, which would maintain the fawns spots while being the color of the fox, I took some of the Fennec Foxes fur and added a layer of it over the deers back, then smudged, blurred and erased some of it until I was happy with my result. I added the foxes tail to the deer to continue the look of the Fennec and had to erase a  part of the tail to make it seem like it had fallen in between the deers legs.

Starfruit~

Painted panda

More realistically painted Panda :3

My painted Panda