Personal Project Blog Post

 In Animation, we created an animated story that included scene changes, a walk cycle, and a beginning, middle, and end. For my story i had my character, Baymax, holding a balloon while walking down the sidewalk. Then, he accidentally let go of the balloon and the scene changed to the balloon flying through the air all alone and down the street, and then for the ending, he gets caught in a tree and is sad and scared, until a lady balloon gets caught in the tree too and they end up happy.

There was a lot of work put in to this video. For the preparation process, 1st i had to really think about how my story was going to work and how i was going to create my characters. After i decided on that, i had to draw my characters on paper and import them to my computer. Then, i created my backgrounds using Photoshop and finally when all of that was done, the real magic started. I imported everything the AfterEffects and started with my walk scene. After a couple weeks, working scene by scene, it was finally completed and done. I think if i would have had more time it would have had better quality, but i did what i could in the time being and i am satisfied with how it turned out.

Along the way, i learned how to better use both Photoshop and AfterEffects. I learned how to create different scenes and put them together like a movie. With Photoshop i got more experince with creating things, such as the backgrounds, and became more comfortable with photoshop. I did try hard to make the deadline and i think i did pretty well with my Project Management, although more time would have been good. I don't think i would change anything if i could redo it because I'm happy with how it turned out, but maybe i would have worked a little faster/harder. But overall, I'm happy with the result.

Organizing Clips

In this post i am going to explain how to organize clips using Premier Pro. In order to organize your clips you have to create a 'bin'. Bins can contain source files, sequences, and other bins. A bin is not a necessary in order to make a video but its a great way to stay organized and make your video easier. At the bottom of the project panel, you can press the "new bin" button to create a new bin. while working in a project, you might decide to change how you can view your bins. If you're in the standard layout, you can see the basis of your whole project. But, sometimes you can be able to focus on just particular clips in the bin by opening a bin in its own tab.

After you create a bin, drag your clips to the bin icon to put them in there. you can even move bins into other bins to hold them. Also, to display the contents from a bin, click the triangle besides the Bin icon to expand it. To show the contents of an enclosing bin when you're viewing only the contents of a nested bin, click the parent button in the project panel.And lastly, to open or close more than one bin at once, press Alt-click on multiple selected bins.