Character story

For this project I used all the skills I gathered in After Effects, and I made a 2D character story animation. It tells the story about a blue bear named Blueberry, and his struggle to climb a tree and get a bee hive full of honey. I had to first storyboard the story and grab the whole idea and concept of the story, I drew it out, and then I scanned it to my computer. Using photoshop I was able to color in the bear and trace over the sketch to give him life. I made the tree, the beehive, and the background. Then I placed all of the layers into After Effects and started to animate. I learned how to make compositions into scenes, and I also learned how to reuse keyframes. I learned to scale objects to make medium and wide shots, and I used null objects to my advantage as well. I had to sort of rush this project due to deadlines, but overall it came out pretty well. Next time I would probably add more shots but I would make them short shots. They would be one or two seconds to add a little more flare and plot development. Now that I know how to compose a project like this, it would take less time next time, and I would have time to go back and make a couple of adjustments in the animation to make it a bit more fluid. Time management would be better next time as well.  For next time, I would keep the bear and just keep using the skills I've learned the same way I've been using them. For my next experience,  Im going to learn from the problem I had with laying out keyframes, and place them into a composition I can reuse to save time. In conclusion, this project came out pretty well. I think its the better project I've made.