For this iMovie project my interests are more towards comedy! I don't have anything specific in mind for this project though!

The name of our animated short is Identity. The purpose of the animation is to show two people from completely different upbringings and backgrounds. The girl “Lady,” is from a wealthy family and pretty much has it all, and “Guy” has quite the opposite. The two shed their differences and become friends in the end. The techniques we used in class were extremely beneficial as we were able to watch our characters come to life! Creating the animation was difficult at times but it was worth it in the end!

                  Together, we thought it would be interesting to see the lifestyle of the different characters and to really stress not to judge a book by its cover. We meet all kinds of different people who live different lives than us. I think its important not to judge a book by its cover, doing so leads us to miss out on opportunities that could be great for us. In our film Guy is from a rough neighborhood and doesn’t really have a family, whereas Lady has a big house and her parents. However, Lady feels lonely in this big house and yearns for a new friend, Guy. Although different they both want the same thing.

First impressions also play into this animation. When we meet people we automatically come up with a story for the person we met. We have tons of assumptions and its safe to say that we can generally be wrong about people. That is why we purposely created the animation so that you see Guy’s house AFTER the two have already met. It goes to show that you can like a person for who they are and not what they have, so I think it was clever to place the scene after they talk and become friends rather having them meet at the bus stop and show them walking past his house first like we had previously planned on doing!

                  We created our animation using classic tween to create the smooth motion you see when the characters walk, additionally we used a frame by frame animation style on Lady. We used transition slides that help move the story along and give the audience a little insight as to what is happening. We added music to the entire thing as well as created “talking bubbles” to allow our characters to voice their opinions.

                  Overall we believe our animation was a success! We put a lot of hard work into it and collaborated our efforts to create an animation that the class will enjoy! Looking back there are a couple things we would have done differently. The timing of the entire short was difficult to workout as we found ourselves creating more time for the talking parts than we originally did. But, it is good to struggle at time because it made us learn so much over the past couple weeks. I forced us to get creative own our own and to really rely on what we learned as a whole!

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Different Types of Creativity:

I definitely think that my creativity has improved since taking this class already and I can only imagine how I'll feel after the course is completed!
I think I'm more of a personal creator. I have used insight to guide creativity in the past! I also think that I can be a brilliant creator, the person that sparks ideas and thoughts. It's interesting to see how people are different and create things in different ways.

Cat Soup Video:
1. The animation was very very interesting to say the least. I can honestly say I have no idea what this film was about. There were various scenes and concepts in the film and it seemed a little random to me.
2. I liked in one part that the screen kind of "fell" apart and the characters were running and ended up in a different scene. It was a really cool transition! I like that some of the shapes in the film turned into others things. We kind of learned how to reshape a circle in different ways and I saw that illustrated in the film. Lastly, it was interesting to me that they made the bizarre seem completely normal. Like how the fish had no body and only skeleton, yet he was ale to swim away perfectly fine. So I guess my third strategy would just be thinking outside the box!
3. Overall, I'm not sure how I feel about the film. It was kind of weird to be honest! I was pretty confused as to what the point of the film was because the different scenes didn't really go together. However, I will say that the imagery was pretty good! I also thought it was awesome that they showed disasters happening in reverse like they had been undone. I really liked that aspect of the film a lot.