This is the window frame design I’ve drawn for the animations to take place in. It is similar to my reference images and I tried to include different styles of window, I also didn’t worry about the side windows as I chose to have the animation more zoomed in compared to what I had planned originally, this is because the animated scene took longer than expected and I wanted them to be the main focal point.
Instead of moving the animation frame by frame to be able to pan up the building I decided to use the camera tool. I have never used it before so this video was a lot of help, also because I wasn’t familiar with using classic and motion tweens, so using the camera for the first time introduced me to this. At first it was difficult to make the movement look natural, or easy to watch. I think this is because my animations are different lengths, this means that the camera would slow down for different lengths of time. however I was able to use classic tweens in-between keyframes to make it move a lot smoother.
I imported the animations one by one into the window frames so I didn’t get confused. This is because I used the edit multiple frames tool (second to the left) so as I was rescaling the animations my computer became really laggy, so I don’t think rescaling all the animations at the same time would have worked efficiently.
I am disappointed I wasn’t able to include parallax, this is when the drawings are at different distances from the camera making the movement look a lot more realistic, when I followed the steps on the video my layers ended up moving at different times so the widows didn’t line up with the backgrounds in the windows. I’m sure this is because they are line art so the layers aren’t opaque, so there isn’t drawings on top of one another. For example, the kitchen counter being erased each frame so the drawings don’t interfere with each other.
WWW-I’m glad I have figured out the editing, especially since I left last week unsure, and it is a very key part of my project. I’m also happy i didn’t end up using premiere pro because I’m not sure i would be able to make the animation move smoothy.
EBI-i think parallax would have improved my work and i am disappointed I am unable to use it with how my animation is constructed.
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