As far as I have got I didn’t full complete my animation project but even with what I have it sill looks good and i learned a lot of skills along the way which helped me overcome problems I came across throughout the project. i knew it would take a long time which is why I started early. I believe it went well although i did stumble across a storage issue on my PC which did kill a lot of valuable time but i managed to recover and proceed on with the project. I didn’t plan on having an issue but I knew something would come along to slow progress so I allowed for this.
As i was following along and creating a parody of a old existing animation (see second video below) i believe i did really well in creating a modern replica as well as developing a lot of my own features to make it unique and its own charm and style but still down below theirs a comparison to what i was trying to remake and my version of it and the outcome even if it isn’t finished you can grab the idea on what the rest would of ended up like.
Play original at 0:39 with sound for both
play my version from beginning which would sync them at same pace / point.
My version
Original Teen titans version
I’m really pleased that my version looks similar and is almost in sync with the original (from the 39 second point in the original). i decided to create a tank rather than a large canon because I took inspiration from GTA (which has tanks) so I thought that would look cool. I also had a hover bike rather than one with wheels, as these are also used in GTA. I decided not to have a fountain in one of the scenes (like 1 minute into original) because I didn’t want to have exactly the same scene and also I thought the fountain would take too long to animate especially as the background is one giant image this would make it difficult. I had to think about the time scale, so cutting out the fountain seemed sensible. At the end of the original animation (at around 1 min 20s) there are black circles on a white floor. I decided to have white circles on a blue floor as this made my characters stand out more. I thought it was important to have more colours than the original and have done this throughout. I think this makes it more appealing to the audience.
Future Development:
If I had more time I would finish the animation by adding the extra scenes, so it was the same length as the original. I would also make sure the music and effects were in sync. For example, at the moment the tank firing noise is not quite on point. I may have to make the animation / frame rate slower as the beginning seems to go too fast. I would finish adding colours as some of my characters are still just an outline.
Level 3 computing projects 