Evaluation

From looking back at my created animation and the written work I have produced to go with it on my blogger account, I think that overall it was quite a good well made animation which showed a new recreated version of the film the titanic in cartoon form, however lasting only about 35 seconds maximum.

I decided to create my animation using model based as the animation type because I thought that it was the most inventive, creative and imaginative type of animation out of that and the four others which are cut out, cell based, time lapse, and pixilation.
I chose to make my animation from model based by using jellybaby sweets to act as my models within my created animation rather than anything else because of them being able to move around more freely etc.


I used a variety of different coloured jellybabies to show different people in the film the titanic, and so that they could be understood and recognized in the credits more easily.
From the start of my animation, when it was first being created I realised that I was actually using cut out aswell as model based animation in my animation because of the clouds, and the actual titanic ship I used to crash were both cut out animation, and I think using two animation types together has made my animation a lot more effective and unique and will stand out better overall.

As my animation only lasted about 35 seconds maximum, the start was actually the end of the film, showing from where the titanic crashes up until when of the main characters rose was saved in a lifeboat, aswell as other survivors.

I then saved and uploaded my animation to blogger to be shown and criticised, even though I hadn’t fully completed it by adding a soundtrack or title and credits.
This is one of the important things that member so y class commented I should have had to improve my animation and so improve my mark.

However from my criticism back, a lot of people have said that my animation was creative, imaginative, unique and had an easy understandable storyline to watch and refer to the real film from.
Yet there was also more criticism which showed that people thought I could have improved it a lot if a few ways, for example even though some people said it was a good use of software, my camera skills could have been improved at the same time.
There was some reference to using a good blend of cut out and model based animation together which could have made it a more fascinating animation overall.
Most of the bad points about my animation were on the same thing, which was that it was lacking music for the background, title and credits which would have helped it stand out more rather than being just a plain animation with no sound and so very unappealing.



However once I had shown my animation to the other members of my class and had then been criticised from both good and bad points, I added the music for the background which was the main theme song used in the film titanic which was “my heart will go on” by Celine Dion, because this particular song obviously fits in with my animation on the recreated titanic film using certain scenes because of it fitting in with the exact same idea used in the actual film itself.

I then finally added my title and credits to the start and end of my animation, my title being named “Titanic the 2nd, iceberg strikes back”, as though the iceberg has hit the titanic once and it is doing it again, and I used bright colours aswell as a blue coloured background behind to look more appealing.
I then added my credits last, which show which coloured jellybaby acted as which actor in titanic, I also wrote the name of the singer who sang the song I have used in my animation which was Celine Dion and at the end I have added that I produced it with help from another member of my class which was Sophie Mitchell.

Overall I think that it was quite a well made animation once I had added the music, title and credits, but could have defiantly used some new different techniques aswell to maybe show in more detail how I made my animation and problems I might have had during creating it, aswell as good points and I could have wrote about all these things on my blogger in a step by step plan.


By Liam Swalwell