Obviously, if you’re going to tell a story, it’s a good idea to know what that story is before you go and tell it. So that’s why I’ve drawn up a storyboard. It helps to know exactly what you’re planning to do beforehand, rather than make it up as you go along. You don’t get as stuck then.
The next project is an animation in Flash lasting a couple of minutes. Now I’ve done plenty of work in Flash, but that’s specifically missing out animation of characters because – in all honesty – I can’t draw. So I needed to find an animation I could do without doing too much drawing by hand.
We’ve got a new brief set… hooray…! This is a Flash-based project, however, so we’re batting at home on this one.
As time moves on, you’re most likely going to get bored with the designs of yesterday. It happens. Time moves fast, especially when you’re learning new design features every day. It’s time my portfolio got a little bit of a facelift. But what to do?
As part of my course, we have to create a video channel website full of interesting and fun things to do on that site relating to a series of fictional and non-fictional video content. Our group’s project centres around creating a parody of already comical TV series Gavin and Stacey.