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The Zenith Project at Freestyle is meant to be a culminating project that allows students to use the skills learned at Freestyle for an original project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For my Zenith Project, I composed and recorded a collection of songs with simple animations, telling the story of Raine, Raccoon, and their adventures. I really enjoy music and telling stories, so this project was perfect for me. I had originally envisioned doing more animation, but didn’t end up having time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before this project, I had never done any sort of 2D animation, nor had I ever tried to compose a collection of songs. I was able to apply fundamentals of animation I had learned in my Animation class, even though the class was for 3D animation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started by writing and composing Mushroom Blues.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Writing in Google Keep<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I used an online MIDI tool called Signal (https:\/\/signal.vercel.app\/edit<\/a>) to work on composition while away from actual instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n

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From there, I started brainstorming how the rest of the story should go by laying out how I wanted to break up the story into different songs.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Brainstorming in Google Keep<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

From there, I worked on writing lyrics for the rest of the songs and composing them on Signal and with actual instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Writing on Google Keep<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Once all of the songs were written and composed, I started recording vocals and guitar.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Recording in Audacity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

From there, I animated short loop-able animations in Adobe Animate.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Animating in Adobe Animate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Then I edited the audio and video together using Adobe Premiere Pro.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Editing in Adobe Premiere Pro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

And that’s it! Enjoy (if you can) the final product!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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