Conclusion

Overall i am happy with the out come of the animation that has been created. The animation was aimed at 4 to 14 year old and i feel i have achieved this by creating an original character in a cartoon like style. The bench feels jealous and sad until he eventually thinks of a way he could attract more people to him.

I feel that i have become very confident with the morther tool, near all my animation was based around using the the morther tool and i feel i have learnt it very well. My first try with it, i made the faces straight away with minimal control over the characters expression. After a rethink i decided to add more control for the expressions by breaking them down into individual pieces.

I also feel i have become more confident using the particle systems and using the particle view panel to modify them.

The improvements that could be made with the animation is the shot could be a little longer, and more shots could be added to explain more of the story to the viewer. The animation could contain people to express the longing for people more, form the bench. More lighting could be added to show time differences and to improve the look of the textures.

I am proud of the animation i have created and i feel it has severed its purpose, there is defiantly room for improvement. I have learnt allot from this animation and i feel my skills have improved.

Finalisation

All clips where rendered as bitmap files, and imported into premier pro using the number stills method. They where ordered and the sound was put over the top. The title was added at the beginning and the end is added at the end.

The Finished animation is exported out at 800x600 and in the format mp4

Audio

Cattails - http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?feels

used for the happy background music

Sad Trio - http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?keywords=sad&Search=Search

used for the background music during the sad parts

Ding - http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=66136

used when the bench has an idea

Rain and Thunder - http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=2523

used when the rain starts

Clip 10

Clip 9 is the final scene where the bench has placed plants around itself to make it more appealing for people to sit on, the bench is very happy as he feel his plan will work.

Clip 9

Clip 9 is when the bus stop is watching the actions being made by the bench, the bus stop leans in and out in a state of confusion, whist watching the bench.

The poser in the bus window has changed so the suns are on the left, facing the direction the bench is in. This is meant to symbolise the bus stops eyes.

The bus stop raises one eyebrow and the mouth changes to a worried mouth, the bus stop is in a state of confusion.

Clip 8

Clip 8 starts of with the bench feeling sad, the frame is lowered very slightly

as if he is unhappy but not upset.

The bench then gets an idea, the frame is raised to the maximum, the eyes are widened, the happy mouth and the idea mouth are combined together and the brow is raised. The bench is heightened and the expression is big to make the bench stand out and to make him look like he has had a realisation.

The frame lowers and the brow changes to a dipping brow, this was to give the bench a sinister smile look, as if he has thought of a way of stealing the bus stops people.

Clip 7

Clip 7 is when the bench become very sad and lonely, a lot of different morther targets where used in this clip.

The first 30 frames the bench frame slightly drops and the eye brow is slightly raised. When the first 30 frames are up the frame drops completely down, the eyes open wide, the eye brow is raised to its maximum, both the sad mouth and the worried mouth are combined.

The frame was sunk all the way down to display the bench is feeling very low, the eye brow is raised to increase the focus on the benches widening eyes, both mouths are combines to make the bench seem like he is about to cry.

The eyes are lowered to the base of the eyes to make the bench seem like its focus is on the floor.

A rain particle system starts at frame 30, this is what causes the bench to become very sad as he has no shelter. The particle system was created by following THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTSJyqHrWIo) tutorial.