Animation Project

For our animation, we wanted to do comedy mixed with sports. We chose to do a track theme for it because we thought we could get the humor to come across. Some aspects in our animation, we wanted to use things that cartoons use because we thought that would be a good way to get the humor part across. It worked out well because we were able to split up the scenes equally between the two of us. We had background that we used multiple times. When creating the figures we wanted the main character to be this small skinny guy compared the the rest of his track friends. In the track scene, we made the rest of the guy taller and buffer. When they exited the scene we made them shuffle across like how comics do. We added sound effects to some part of the animation and not the entire thing. We didn’t want to get too carried away with the sound.

Our protagonist keeps failing at different event. When he does the shot putt, he doesn’t throw it very far. Then when he goes to the hurdles, he can barely get over them. But he doesn’t give up. Instead he pole vaults over the final hurdles. He goes flying over up. In the final scene, we see that he finds a flyer for being a “stunt man”. We thought this would be funny since he can barely do simple track and field events. That is where the humor comes into play.

We wanted our character to be able to overcome perseverance and to keep trying. We didn't want him to just give up.

Our group worked really well together. We knew our parts and got them done on time. We helped each other out and asked questions when we were sure. We communicated through email when we weren't in class.

Title page - Christina
Opening walking scene - Christina
Sports day flyer - Christina
Coach talking - Chrisitna
Shot Putt - Justin
Track - Justin
Hurdles - Justin
Pole Vault - Justin
End walking scene - Christina
Stunt Man flyer - Christina