Final Project: Early Bird

5/11/2020

This is my work for the final project. I chose to create an animation of an "early bird." For this animation, everything was created by myself, except for the sound effects. I tried to incorporate multiple of Disney's 12 animation principles and used various techniques we learned throughout the Animation course.

Storyboard:

This animation follows an recently woken-up bird, who notices its first meal of the day (a worm). The bird then flies down, approaches the spot where it saw the worm and catches it. But... the worm doesn't give up so easily...

3 Frames:

Some of the major techniques I used for this project included using the graph editor, Python scripting for the grass, deformers, sculpting tools, etc.

***Note: my animation is just slightly longer than the 15-30 second project specifications, and I wasn't sure why the shadows behaved as they did after rendering (see final animation)

Final Animation:

References:

Sound Effects: www.zapsplat.com