Animation Outtakes

In GT, we are currently working on creating a "Tell Your Story" animation. My team mates for the project are Keegan, Haley, and April. Two fascinating things about Haley is, she is a great Taiko drummer and you can also find her singing all the time. April on the other-hand enjoys anime and reading mystery books. Lastly Keegan absolutely loves to bake and also is a pro when it comes to volleyball .

Animation... there are many forms of it; Stykz, clay formations, digital, whiteboard,  and many more. But the type of animation that you, along with numerous others probably know of, is stop-motion. Stop-motion is a form of animation that is used to make a subject(s) have the illusion of movement. To portray this illusion, you first take a still picture of your subject, then have the subject move a tad, take another picture, move once more, and take a picture again. You then repeat this until you have all the necessary images to form the movement. Now, you can put your images together in Photoshop, or another digital editor you'd like to work in. Another form of animation that you might hear often is a GIF. GIF stands for, Graphic Interchange Format, which is simply just a compressed file of your animation. If you'd like to see simple examples of a GIF, you can take a look at my two that I have created.

So for our project, "tell Your Story", all teams had to choose a story that happened to one of our teammates. As a couple days passed, we finally agreed to do a story about our fellow teammate, Keegan, who loves to bake. The focus of our story is, how one has to make a couple of mistakes to make (what they believe) is perfection. Also, with patience and perseverance comes great outcomes. We know that everyone has faced this a couple times or two and we believe that this would be a good representation on how to overcome it. So, we want to show that Keegan is trying to bake cupcakes for her friends birthday but she has reached a couple of bumps in the road, but after she doesn't give up and perseveres through her struggles, she accomplishes the task. The cupcakes are meant to represent people's lives as in we need to make mistakes if we want to be ready for any other challenges we may encounter. With that, we decided to name our animation, "Keegan Bakes Perfection".And by the way Keegan is actually a fantastic baker, but everyone knows that even professionals can make mistakes sometimes.