Our Animation Story

For our animation project, we are dong the focus statement "Hannah Switches Schools." The theme of this project is to "Tell your story" and so we went with Hannah's story because she had the most interesting one. Portraying a story in animation can be difficult, but if you put enough effort and time into something like this, then it's definitely achievable. We had to use at least three animation typed, so we used whiteboard, stop motion, Stykz, and Photoshop.

The lesson we are hoping to get across the audience is that change isn't always so bad. Lots of people worry when they're moving or changing schools because they aren't sure of what the outcome would be like. In this story we would want to show that sometimes change can be for the better. Even when worry plagues your mind, you can come through and make it work.

In the process of making our animation, we did really well working as a team. We worked together, and made it happen. Our best moments were when we all were working on different scenes, and then stitching them together to make one big great animation. I think our worst moments as a team... Well we didnt really have any really bad moments. I think the worst was when Justice wasn't here, and none of us could do Stykz. In the end, we just replaced it with a photoshop scene. The only real trouble was that and finding more time in our video, we had to add on another scene to make the time cut.

The Anger Of Stykz

What the class thought of it

Animation Outakes

For our new project in GT, we weren't allowed to work with people in past projects. Of course that doesn't mean I haven't worked with all my friends so I'm still pretty happy. I'm working with Justice, Hannah, and Cherish. Apparently we have to name two facts about them. So I guess I'll start with Hannah, she plays soccer and is borderline obsessed with Dan and Phil on the youtube. Justice is a surfer and you can often see him photoshopping weird things on his computer. Then theres Cherish. Cherish is obsessed with anime and Japanese culture, she also spends almost as much time as me on the internet, which is almost concerning.

Stop motion animation is when you take multiple photos of an object and string them together to make the object move in a creative way. A .GIF (pronounced gi-if not jif), is a lossless format for image files that supports both animated and static images. So it's basically a really short clip of something that repeats.

In our story, we're doing the story of when Hannah moved from St. Catherine's to Kapaa Middle School. This story can show that change isn't always bad, and that you shouldn't let worry hold you back from making new experiences and meeting new people. People can use it as a way to relate when something of a big change happens.