Motion Project: Making Of

So this is the first scene I made and I was planning to make the body transparent or maybe go a blank screen and zoom into where the insulin and stuffs are but my lecturer recommended that it zoom into the mouth and shows the water going inside. So I took inspiration with Alice in Wonderland film where she fall in the rabbit hole and Coraline when she goes through the tunnel.

I also added a part where it looks like a factory and machines are converting the sucrose into glucose and fructose. I used a bone deformer to animate this part because it seemed a little bit too annoying to draw over and over. The deformer kind of destroyed the drawing a bit some parts but it doesn't really appear in the animation as it's very fast. It also saved me a lot of time.

Oh and this is how my sketch looked before I corrected the lines. Honestly I find it really pleasant looking at a messy animation I don't know why Ha...

Here's other animations that I corrected and coloured. Oh and sorry I saved these kind of quickly and I forgot to adjust the camera before saving that's why the drawings are cropped.

I also went on learning how to add highlights which was better looking than the light and tone shader for this style of animation. Well it was pretty simple just confusing at first but you just has to duplicate the drawing which in this picture is the "Bucket" and connect it like this to the highlight then adjust with the peg. This little trick really saved me a lot of time too.

And here's the clip that I showed during one presentation that we had ...

During the presentation I was also asked to change the color of the glucose (the things the little guys are carrying) because it was looking like blood and could get the audience confused.

This is a funny unintentional animation... the flying stuff (which was supposed to be fats) wasn't supposed to follow the man but it was funny so I recorded it :D

I also had to learn how to create glow with the nodes and I used it for the fire and energy bubbles in my video. The glow was different to use compared to the highlight but it did it job well.

And here's what my node view was looking like when I was done putting all the highlight and stuffs.

This is another clip of my unfinished works. This is for the last scene.

Now I had to work on the audios and I had to plan what I was going to read.

I wrote some rough notes then made a better one with places where I need to change my tonation highlihgted

It took me some practice but I finally nailed it. I worked on the audio on a software called Reaper which I usually used with my guitar in my country. It really helped me out with the audio, never thought I'd ever use it for university projects haha, and it was really fun mixing everything up.

Well here are my trials...

So here's the video only with sound effects I found on the net and some were made by myself because it hard to find some free sound effects.

Here's with a kind of robotic children song, it kinds of fits in but isn't very pleasant and doesn't match with my voice at all.

And here's something presentable, but in this one I didn't mix the sound, the voice and the music well. The music is just some ukulele children song I found and it suits my animation well because it's something educational aiming mostly at children. However for this one my lecturer said that I was talking a bit too fast and too long sentences and she recommended that I shorten the details and the sentences a bit so that it doesn't covers the other sound effects too much.

So I re wrote my speech and there wasn't much I could cut but I was able to shorten it a little bit.

Here's my final with the shortened audio, at this point all I had to do was to put a tittle at the beginning.