Japanese side scrolling:

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This is an example of a lesson-based animation, not only one of those animations that has a decent scale, but it has been one of my favourite pieces of work I have made within a single lesson. While there has been work, I have within lessons before, but either technical issues or lack of innovation meant not all of it was shared publically, aside one or two including this one. The premise is that after looking into some Japanese art, we then made an animation which demonstrates the culture of Japan while applying a mix of materialised and live action elements also known as collage. In relevance to this animation, I applied a wide range of aspects such as, Japanese women with fans, cartoon pandas, live action storks, live action rivers, live action M.T Fuji, cartoon land and even a flag that has an animated red dot. I did my best to represent Japan with reverence while applying my own style to it, as if its Japan from my perspective.

 

What also makes this animation special was that this is the only animation I've made that had a side scrolling effect (there is the 'Space and Ships' title sequence which have this trait too, but this animation showcases this more clearly), this was achieved by making a wide range of digital land, and I animated it to make it go from one side to the other. Throughout this land, this is where I parented a lot of the features such as the assets I've listed earlier, there are other assets however which aren't fixed to a certain position while moving on their own like the paper boat and the hovering blossom flowers. Photoshop helped form the cartoon looking assets while After Effects helped with removing the green screen from some of the live action elements, applied keyframes to the Photoshop drawings, colour graded the animation and more, one piece of footage accidentally contains music, music which doesn't quite suit the animation, despite an accident, the music seems fine with the animation regardless. From my perspective, I do like this animation as well, despite a couple of weaker points.

 

Some of the live action areas like the river could have been applied better, the green land could have done with more texture and of course the soundtrack was an accident which is obvious. However, I do like the side scrolling land aspect, I like how I presented Japan in my own way such as the Japanese woman the blossoms that do give me Japanese vibes and some of the animation, compositing, and parented areas on a basic level I seem to be happy with as well.

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Yet another lesson-based animation, this took a single day, there was another lesson prier where we did visit a small museum to get an idea on Japanese art which was a couple of hours, but the following week is where this animation was being made, I would say this animation took four or more hours. The lengthier areas were the formation of the Photoshop assets like the green land and the Japanese fan ladies. The many blossoms flying from the tree I would say would be the longest animation part. It was also time consuming for when organising all the assets within their parented positions from where abouts it is within the mainland; and with the many assets within the compositing, the render took more than thirty minutes, regardless, everything I wanted was completed before the due time within the day.