2D Animation Evaluation

My 2D Animation Evaluation

 

 

For my 2D animation i created a Nickelodeon bumper, to advertise Nickelodeon; the purpose of this was so I could put this Nickelodeon sting before a programme actually starts. What I did to make my 2D animation was that I  printed off lots of different sea creatures, I made them swim in the way that they would in real life. I printed the pictures of all the sea creatures out, copied them onto a different piece of paper and coloured them in orange because this was  the theme colour in the main logo and I felt this colour needed to be in the animation.  I also added the character "SpongeBob SquarePants", this is so that it isn't just a bumper with different sea animals, I included this character from a show that was already on Nickelodeon which is why I included it in the bumper. The 2D animation was meant to be 15 - 30 seconds long and my animation was 24 seconds long.

 

I think that my animation could be improved because I felt like I rushed it, however my animation looked reasonably well and it actually looked like a nickelodeon sting in the completed version. I could of  improve my animation by making a little bit longer and looked less rushed, even though the sea animals looked like they were moving, if I had taken more shots it would of looked and ran a lot smoother. I feel the background colour was used really well in my animation, it looked like what the sea would actually looked like. Also throughout the animation i made the fishes eyes to make them look like they were actually blinking, and this made the fish looked alive and made the this a lot more effective.

 

The choice of sound effects I used were really good, I researched an old nickelodeon bumper and used the sound effects from that and put it in my own. I took out the sound effects that didn't fit the animation and it sounded much better. I did this on a piece of software called Final Cut Express. I have used this software before so I knew exactly what I needed to do. My job was to make the sound fit with my animation perfectly and I feel i tackled this challenge well. By  the end of the bumper, characters sing/chant "Nickelodeon" all at the same time, and when this happens the words Nickelodeon appear as the characters are singing. I managed to pick the perfect soundtrack to fit my animation and the length of the animation was surprisingly on point with the music; which I was really happy about.

 

Overall, what I liked most about my animation was when I pieced it all together in Final Cut Express. The music and the animation itself fit together perfectly. I could improve my animation by making it run a bit smoother, not rushing and making adding more characters to it. I chose to make a cut out animation because I couldn't really draw my animation out with the idea I had in mind. By cutting out characters and making them my own looked a lot better than what I think it would of looked like if I would of drew them. What was great about my 2D animation was that it fit all its requirements, the length and sound matched the criteria and the creativity and effectiveness and the time to make it look good, all came together to create my final completed version of the Nickelodeon bumper.