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Explorations Project<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Explorations Projects were about students being able to choose what kind of skill they would learn or improve upon. For my project in Animation class, I wanted to do splash art. Splash art is typically used to for promoting a character for a video game and it is also like an introduction for that character. The splash art I made doesn’t have anything to do with promoting a character for a video game but I wanted to create a splash art of an animal. I thought the idea of splash art was really cool and it wasn’t my first idea for the project. Originally, I wanted to create an animation where a bird was going to flying around the city because they were chasing another bird. However, creating a lot of motion in an animation would take a lot of time and splash art was an idea that I thought was interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In relation to improving my skills in animating, I thought it would be cool to animate elements like water in my splash art where some of the layers would be still. Splash art can be a still image or a mix of animating effects like fire in the background along with still images. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Splash Art Process<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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These are the progress screenshots for my first splash art that I made. I intended for it to show a crane chilling in a lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After I made the art in Photoshop, I would import the files into After Effects and I would eventually be able to export a video using this program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Second Splash Art Process<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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After I finished drawing all the images, I had to export these layers individually into After Effects so I could compile them into a video. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In After Effects, they have effects and presets panel that has a variety of tools to help with animating. For instance, the fog you see in the picture wasn’t something I drew in Photoshop but I had to make it in After Effects. This made the process much quicker rather than trying to make fog frame by frame.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Final Product<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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