Our Animation Story

Or focus statement is "Kiara receives party".  Kiara's story was her last day at her old school in North Carolina. On that day her advisory teacher and all of her friends threw her a surprise goodbye party with all of her favorite drinks and food. I think our focus statement tells our story very simply, it pretty much sums the entire thing up.

I think this story has many valuable life lessons, but I think the most biggest and most important one in my own opinion is to always do the best that you can to make someone have the best time they could possibly have. Her friends and teacher could have done barely anything, but no they threw her a whole entire party for her. A surprise party. Just by doing that they made that memory an actual memory that she would remember for hopefully the rest of her life. So in my opinion making a memory last for someone is what I think the audience will learn after this.

Okay I'm pretty sure that I take the placeholder for my team's worst moment. We were doing the wide for scene two in Stop-Motion and I could not get the camera to focus at all. No matter what I did I tried I couldn't get it to focus. Turns out I had it on manual focus. Yep I was feeling great. Now I think that Rafael takes placeholder for our teams best moment. He completed the close for scene four, the beautiful car, during the critique. Finishing that scene gave us the twenty four seconds that we needed to get that requirement checked off. I really enjoyed this project and can't wait for the next one!

Animation Outtakes

My team for this project includes, The talented Iris Murakami, The brilliant Kiara Wetherington, and the skilled Rafael Sifuentes. Two interesting facts about Iris is that she is a twin and she like anime. Two interesting facts about Kiara is that she has been to acting school for two years and she loves to sing. An interesting fact about Rafael is that he is an extraordinary debater and plays the guitar.

Stop-Motion animation is a type of animation technique used to manipulate an object or person to make it seem like it moves on it's own. In my animation project we used stop-motion for two scenes. In these two scenes I manipulated Kiara and Rafael walking with style throughout the school, handing papers to each other, and opening doors. A .GIF is a multitude of different clips merged together and played on a continuous loop. I have created two .GIF animation examples.

For my team's project idea we went with Kiara's. Kiara's memorable moment was when she was switching schools, and on her last day of school her friends and teachers threw her a surprise party with all of Kiara's favorite food and drinks. I think you should care because this is an amazing thing to do as a friend, if I were in Kiara's shoes at the time I would have felt just so happy and full of joy because she knew that her friends cared for her. Also it's just pretty interesting.