Final Movie

Here is my Final Animation.. im happy with the result of it and feels as though it portrays my story well and the music works well with it. If i had the chance to do it again and improve on it would perhaps learn how to use Adobe Flash to make the character better animated when the camera zoom's in on his expression. i may also perhaps animate the other notes in a way so you can see their expression close up too. I like how the backgrounds i designed in Photoshop have come out and the actual idea of the story even if i did take me 3 storyboards to get me there!

Making an ending

After i had made my animation and edited it in Premiere i then decided that it needed a text ending with the words "Animation by Nathan Fidler" so i watched some tutorials on how to make it look as if the writing's being wrote as you watch. 

In order to do this i had to choose a font i wanted to i used a handwriting one to make it look more effective and then i had to draw over it with the pen tool and add a stroke and keyframes to it. 

Editing My Animation Using Adobe Premiere

Ater i finished making my animation in Atereffects i then rendered it out as a quicktime movie and opened it in Adobe Premiere to add the finishing touch's to it. i had never used Premiere before and had not had a workshop in it neither so i used the online video tutorials to teach me the basics. i used it to trim certain clips and to add video transitions.

There was many of custom preset video transitions i could have used but decided to use the "page peel" effect which i though would look effective.

Making Another Scene

In this scene where all the notes have left the score i imported the background i created in photoshop and put all the notes on the tree apart from the odd one out thats following. I then used the keyframes again to set the times and rotations of all the notes to move and fly off as well as having the odd one out note flying around the tree looking for the others notes.

Heres the end result below

Heres a screen shot of Aftereffects where you can see all the layers being used in time a sequence.

Close Up Animation

In this scene of my animation i wanted it to look as though the camera had zoomed in on the note that had been left alone and he was to then smile and wink. I decided to go back to my research on stopmotion and use the technique's i had learnt to animate my character. i created four photoshop designs of the note with a straight face, smiling face and with him winking so wen i put them together in the right order it would show the effect i was going for.

Here below are the original images..

and heres the final result..

The Music Notes With Aftereffects

To start with to make my first scene i had to import this file below that i created on photoshop i had to make every note an individual layer so that i could make them all move at different times and in different directions.

In order to do this i had to select the layer (the note) i wanted and add keyframes for the time i wanted it to move and the direction i wanted it to move and how long it took to move the distance i had asked it to. This was quite a time consuming job for all 34 different layers that i had to say the least. i then had to add another keyframe for its rotation so that it wasn't just flying of straight because this wouldn't look as effective. i did this by using the rotation keyframes as seen below

Here below is the final result..

Creating My Backgrounds Using Photoshop

 I created the backdrops for my animation using Photoshop so that i could then import them into Aftereffects when making my final animation. I then added all the notes as separate layers to each of the backgrounds on aftereffects later on