Category: ARTM3710 Interactive Animation

my poster is about the town of point pleasant WV where they have a whole festival and museum based off of moth man.

demon buddy is a story about a young boy who is very lonely and ends up summoning a demon to be his best friend.

This gallery link serves as a way to see a few insights on my interactive poster, as well as the functionality. I have also attached the GitHub link for those that would like to try.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jr2pcVHScqo36sbHi760FVrBqlsqMFuK502BSYVWms0/edit?usp=sharing

barsonic.github.io/Find-The-Puck/

This gallery serves as a way to view previous iterations of the Nascar 1984 looping animations as well as other experiments. Below I have attached the google slides link, as well as the fully developed final animation video.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-rBPcBbGC0i2s_dUQnZANox7VHHqRAHWogyiE2HDatQ/edit?usp=sharing

This gallery serves as a way of viewing previous iterations, the final iteration, the build process, and some videos as well. I have attached the Google Slide link to view the slides as I make small edits.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XV5AMR1MXIYWwN7XT20zi6n1nItfQdzJOQNnHG86Bbs/edit?usp=sharing

https://forms.gle/H8pv1PE3kh1bDeiv7

i didn’t finish these in order so this is the last one in my story

might try and make this one longer in the final form

here is my first loop i may make the video faster in the final

Here is my final First Loop. I added the shepherd.

Here is my last loop as well.

Only the 4th loop is left.

https://www.kapwing.com/w/lpUPX9gIV6

For my looping animation project, I wanted to create a unique narrative about a baker who had recently lost her feline companion.

In the story, she is struggling with grief, and in her saddest moments, she decides that the best cure for sadness is to return to your roots in what you love – in her case, she of course decides to bake! Following her passion, she gets into the kitchen with the main ingredient of love, and creates her new companion, well, a much “doughier” version!

Please watch ‘The Baker’s Cat” below~

• 72 Frames in total

The Process:

Starting out with an idea of how I wanted to utilize my concept I right away went into Procreate and created a really messy storyboard based on what I intended to be the first loop, the exposition. Below I’ve also attached my notes on ideas, and the 5 steps I needed to cover.

*Sorry for the lighting*

Following my notes and pretty messy storyboarding, I polished my ideas a bit more and made all 5 scenes:

The Loops:

Based on my storyboards, I began to draw my frames and create the loops. I worked on polishing and playing with transitions for added effect

Loop 1 – Exposition:

Loop 2 – Rising Action:

Loop 3 – Climax:

Loop 4 – Falling Action:

Loop 5 – Resolution

Full Animation, without restriction on frame count:

Reflection:

I did enjoy this project a lot, and I think I had a generally easy process because I tried to maintain a simple art style and a relatively common concept of grief and healing (of course, with a bizarre twist). I think if I did this project again, I’d go more into finalizing the animation. I struggled quite a bit with the idea I had of adding sounds and music, and I think it is due to animating completely in Procreate, with a very simple 1 frame per second. Most of the software I tried to use, such as Stop Motion, wasn’t able to provide the control I wanted, and I dove into Adobe Premiere Pro, which was too much for a single-minute video. I haven’t given up, though, on adding sound and music; hopefully, I can have an update to this post soon!

Aleah Dudek