Zenith: the time at which something is most powerful or successful. This project, fittingly dubbed the Zenith Unit, is the final major project we undertake at Freestyle, and its aim is to demonstrate to others what skills we have learned. This can be done in a variety of ways through a variety of mediums such as music, animation, film, drawing, building something, etc. For my project, I originally wanted to create a 1-minute animated video underwater, however, there were many challenges and drawbacks to this. For instance, underwater animation is an incredibly complex subject in addition to the fact that the characters I modeled were unusual and difficult to animate. As a result, I opted to make a comic book style rendition of the animation.\u00a0 This project was important to me because I wanted to demonstrate that I was a capable animator like the rest of my classmates and I felt that through this project I could show my worth.<\/p>\n
This project proved very challenging because of the reasons I listed above and because of quarantine. We had to way of getting direct help from Mr. Cho, so for the most part we were left to fend for ourselves. Of course, we reached out if we needed help, but he couldn’t give us direct input while we were working in order to continuously improve upon our work. In addition, being in a home environment offered many challenges, such as easy distractions without being told off.<\/p>\n
Overall, I’m proud of the finalized product. I worked hard to create the 60+ shots and compiling them in Adobe inDesign and I feel that my effort paid off significantly. It wasn’t easy trying to work around all the problems I encountered, such as bugged models, lighting problems, and rigging models manually, but in the end I prevailed and showcased new skills and old ones. This project demonstrates my ability to manually rig unusual models that function properly, my ability to overcome problems without much direct help, my own ingenuity by overcoming them, and my creativity in creating this storyboard. I hope that in the future I will learn from the mistakes I made and continue to improve upon the skills I learned through this project.<\/p>\n
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