Friday, 8 May 2009

wk 12: Testing

Because I finished so early I was blessed with the once-in-a-life-time opportunity of fully testing my animation on people! To do this I uploaded it to my personal website and advertising it to as many people as possible to view and give feedback on as well. On top of this I took my animation around with me and pestered everyone I knew to view it for me as well.
In doing this I was able to make adjustments to the sound and animation to improve it and by the end of week 11/start of 12 I could only find 2 improvements that I could have made.

One was to animate Drew's run at the end to be slightly more convincing by adding shoulder movements and the second was to add a third camera angle into the animation at the start when Drew falls down the cliff to improve the continuity/consistency of the overall animation.

These would be things that would improve my animation if I had more time to do it but I spent so much time at the start of my semester on this module that I needed to concentrate on catching up in the other modules! THis said I am still chuffed with the level of animation I have somehow pulled off and think that it is a complete short animation which has been the pinnacle of my degree work.