Nisserin Bessioua - UCA Television Production

I did a short test of my animation to see how well it would work and if i could convey on screen for what I imaged my characters to do. In order to do this, I looked through lots of online tutorials to find the best technique for animating in Adobe After Effects and this is what I was able to make.  I am happy with the progress of the animations and the way the characters and backgrounds look. There will be a scene in the final animation that looks like they test video. I have planned out different scenes where the characters will be doing different things, so that the is more variety, making the animation more interesting to watch. This also gives more more room for a complex sound design as more will be happening than them just running. 

Since my initial drawings, I have changed they way the characters look. This was because after using my first drawing, animating them was quite difficult and it became hard to get them to move in the way i imagined. By changed the characters from looking like numbers to actual people, I was able to animate them much easier, being able to make their arms and legs move in a  more natural way.  After reading through the poem again, I felt that by making them look more like people, I would be able to convey more of their personalities in the way they looked. I took all my original ideas of how I imagined their characters to be and just changed the design of them.  Although I liked my original drawings, I also like the news ones and feel that the new design will make it much easier for me to animate them. My next task is to do a test of the animation, to see how well it will work and then to draw the different backgrounds to go with the different scenes. ...

I have chosen to the do the poem 59 by Harry Baker. I decided on this because after looking through the list of peoma,s this was the one i could most envision in my head. I could already picture what i wanted it too look like and  see where I wanted to go with my adaptation. I want to create an animation to go with the poem, incorporating a complex sound design to bring it all together.  I started by testing out some ideas for the characters in the poems and what I wanted them to look like. These are my initial drawings, drawn using photoshop. I read the poem several times and made a list of the three characters different personalities, using how they were described in the poem influence my drawings.