Character Designs of Mali and Knowledge

Storyboards

Final film-"Rejection"

Final project-"

My Process

My process started with the initial rough drawings on animation bond. I scanned all of the drawings into photoshop, and began tracing them in Flash. After I timed out and traced the drawings, I started to clean them up on another level. That part took the longest. Next, I colored all of the drawings for the characters. The last thing I did was to create the backgrounds and color them. The only other thing I did was play with the timing a bit.

Goals for My final film

The overall goals of my film are: To learn how to use Flash to make an animation, learn Flash as a program, have fun with the characters I created, learn learn learn, do frame by frame animation on the computer.
Well this film has definitely been a learning process. I don't think that it is great, but I know how to use flash and some of its short cuts now. Its also been really cool to see my characters moving and in color. The frame by frame animation to a very long time but it works better than tweened animation in my opinion.

Ah the Stylus

How do I feel about the stylus? Well its great! It doesn't have the accuracy of a real pencil or pen, but for what it does its great. It allows a 2D animator like me to learn flash and do flash animations with some sanity. Controlling the line width can be hard and the screen is slippery so my lines sometimes are not accurate. But thats why flash has the smoothing component and allows you to manually edit lines. It can only get better in the future. In conclusion, this shits cool.

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SCRIPT

There are two characters in my animation. There is Mali-a little girl of mixed racial background. And then there is Knowledge-an adult black man who later on in their story (these characters already have backgrounds and I have developed a ongoing story for them) will become Mali's mentor.

Mali is sitting on a bench in the park by herself looking depressed. Knowledge is walking through the park and sees her. He sits down and tries to console her, but she moves away. Then Knowledge gets an idea and pulls out a lolly pop and hands it to her. Mali takes the lolly pop, hops off the bench and walks away while licking the lolly pop, but still has a depressed look on her face. She walks off screen and Knowledge is looking confused. Then the lolly pop comes flying at him and hits him in the head. He is shocked. The End.

Background: Simple nature-a couple of trees and some bushes. Everything happens on a wooden park bench.

MY SENIOR FILM IS A MONSTER!!!

I really love my senior animation. The thing is that I am in senior 2 and still animating when I should be working on clean up and color. My film just takes up so much time and energy that it is hard for me to do other things. I have some serious deadlines to make and even when working extremely hard, its hard to make it to the finish line. I will post some clips of my animation soon.

PREMISE

PREMISE: A comedy about a little girl and a man in a park. The man wants to help the little girl feel better, but the girl doesn't want to feel better or the man's attempts don't work.

PUPPET JUMP! This is a silly character. It makes me laugh just watching it animated.... a leg for a neck. You gotta love that.

I wish all animation was as easy as making a bouncing ball. I would put my characters on a path and say "do this" and go home and eat LOL.

Well the bouncing ball projects went ok. They were my very first flash animations.
Hell yeah I'm proud of them! You got something to say?! Leave a comment then _______! Well anyway, check it out. As soon as I figure out how to publish it.

this is really my favorite animation. i hope this works.

This is my favorite animation.


Here is a picture of some Boondocks character.

Welcome

Welcome to the animation blog of Akinlana. Its going to be fun.