Hand in day , just a sum up post realy

Soo yeh the sting this is what i thought:

As for my group

matt obviously didnt exist but glad he wasn't realy because he probobly would have made it harder to get things done.

Liam- Was both good and bad to work with,

good at: the ideas and we were always on the same wavelengths so it was easy to get things across to eachother. He got the work done when underpressure at the end and finished in time.

issues were that he was a bit lazy and left it a bit too long before he started, however from the start i new this would happen so i tried to compromise it so i had the majority of the animation as i had trust in myself to get it don

also he didnt do anywhere near as much as i contributed concidering it was his sting idea so it kind of seemed like i took over his sting as he did his end bit of the animation the initial background and the microwave character but i did the rest, it was a bit unfair in that respect but i supose it suited me better as i could get it done to the quality i wanted which could be pushed more.

overal liam was a good team mate we got it done in tim so it turned out well and as he said it was because it was his sting and he thought he would work harder if it was mine which i understand.

feelings about the sting itself- I think it turned out well thanks to neils critisizms early on i manged to make a far more appealing toaster. I like how my animation turned out i didnt think id get it done but a few late nights solved that and i think the qulity of my animation was prety good.

the negative id say is just the background i would have liked to have a half decend background done after last night im still not happy with the colours, this shows that in future i should try and work with someone who can do backgrounds as i think we both struggle at that aspect.

My performance- i think i coped well with the workload, i probobly shouldn't have done as much as i did as it was rather uneven but i coped with it and got it done so yeh no worries.

overal im happy with what we acheived, could impove the background in future, was a bit one sided in the workload howver lia was a good partner and id work with him again but probobly kick him up the bm a bt more and get him started a bit earlier, but yeh it turned out better than id thought so im happy. didnt no what to make of the reaction though today so yeh duno if people thought it was good or bad. but i like it and what we acheived and have learnt alot from doing this that il take onto next year.

The complete sting with the my new background (HOPEFULY ITS BETTER THAN THE OLD ONE OR IVE JUST WAISTED VALUABLE SLEEP LOL)

The complete sting with the old background

my section of the animation with my new layout and sound

Erm yeh thought id just show what exactly was my contribution to the sting

So yeh I did:

Character design for the toaster fridge and had a go at the kettle which was dropped from the animation altogether,

The sound effects and music

animating quite a fair amount i think

and finally just now the new layout which i hope is more appealing than the last- (also did the poker table and contents throughout)

Below are the images of my characters and the new layout as a still frame of the long shot within the sting:

Now for a nice friendly post after that one

Yeah hand in in like 5 hours so hmm yeah mr perfectionist i guess wanting to improve everything.

anyway yeah today was pretty stressful Liam finished his animation at last would of been better a bit earlier because would have had more time to put it together and changed a few things

Erm as for me i finished all my animation so i was adding sound to my part then did to Liams when he had finished, found this bit fun. s

o yeah were in the studio until like 7 trying to get the dam quick time to export properly played with it in like 4 different software's getting equally naff results, but in the end i manged to get one by dropping the quality down, it still looks no different to the other quality's though so its OK.

most of that wasn't happy i spoze oh wel

Dam my picky self, instead of a nice sleep after a stressful time as we thought we were done i decided to play with making a new background at like 1 in the morning and yeh its like five in the morning now and i dont even no if ive made it better or worse. hmm yeh the background looks better but in the more close up bits i need a blur realy as the lines of the kitchen serfaces and cupboards stand out and draw the eye a bit too much