Game

Peer Review

For my peer review I have chosen Tristan Wuyt's 'The Lion and The Monkey'.

I thought this was a very entertaining piece of animation, from the start to the finish it kept me interested. It flowed smoothly, the lighting and the use of the toys and, the clever use of thread as the net was exceptional. Tristan created his own 'jungle' with wood and other bits of plants which worked amazingly for it was set in a jungle type of theme and the fact that he used real materials gave the scene a far more authentic feel. 

All the scenes fit together perfectly as if made by a professional, I could tell that he put time, effort and thought into the making of this animation. I enjoyed the fact he even thought about the movement of the background, the production was given a realistic effect by this movement. 

Also the fluidity he gave to the characters added to the slick execution of this classic stop motion animation.

The only criticism of this animation I would give is perhaps to use various light effects to give the illusion of time passing. Maybe the use of night and day? This could be used in a comic fashion to show a more anxious emotion to the monkey.

The Animation we made

We were asked to create a stop motion animaton which lasts for two minutes conveying information of any kind to our Education Futures group, using any type of animation creating device. We used Zu3D animaton device that has already been uploaded into the universty's PC.
In our group there was Toni and me, we decided to to create an animation that's related to the meme 'What People Think I do/ What I Really Do'. The animation had four different scenes each had it's own title and sound effects.

We splitted our roles up into different parts according to the needs of the animation. So Toni was incharge of the drawing and cutouts, whereas I was incharge of the small parts of the drawings such as the 'Z's', Lightbulb, backgrounds, and sound effects, taking pictures of the scences, editing, as well as putting everything together on Zu3D.
The hardest parts of the animation was taking the pictures for I had to take pictures of the letters one by one, so it'll have an 'old fashioned' effect on the animation. Editing was a nightmare I felt that I couldn't get it right so in the end I went on paint and used to rubber to edit as well as draw the backgrounds on.
But for the 'typed' scenes I used my iPad to edit because the lighting was different in some of those scenes therefore to make this darker I found the iPad easiest to use.

The most hardest part was Zu3D - it was so simple, but because it was simple it frustrated me for I wanted to create something more complicated out of the animation. But it couldn't comprehend or understand what I was trying to create thus freezing till I have deleted what I imbedded into the previous layer.

The most rewarding prospect of this animation was when we had finally fnished it, even though it was very time consuming, we were overjoyed when we finally saw the finished product. Though it was tough I would happly do it again.

Here is our animation: