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!