Character Devolpment

I am a kind of person who always wants to stay out of stressful situations and just have fun with my friends. You might think that having fun with my friends all the time might not be a good thing, but I do my work when I need to and try to find shortcuts while i'm doing it but not in a way in which it would hurt the quality of my work. Im also a person who just doesn't like doing anything that I feel wont help me or others. My hobbies are gaming, fishing, and watching funny TV shows. An imperfection that I have for one is definitely procrastination. Overall Im just someone who likes to have lots of fun.

The way Im planning to exaggerate the character traits while animating is by using the puppet warp tool in a way that it shows the character's emotions. For example, if the character is sad, I can exaggerate her physical reaction to being sad which might be crying or even bawling on the ground. The reason why animation is so great is because it can bring inanimate objects to life or make your characters do things they cant in real life. For instance, if the character is very happy and or excited then I can bring the viewer to the character's happy place which can be filled with things that you wouldn't be able to film in real life, like unicorns or rainbows.

 The first thing we had to do in our GIF was to set the size of the document, which is a really important part of the process as it will downsize the images so that they wouldn't overload the computer. Next we had to use the quick selection tool to get your body separate from the rest of the picture . After this we would make a background layer which be the backdrop of your animation. After this is done, you may then open up your animation workspace. Mr. Sanderl stated that in GIFs there is a flow of movement in other words a seamless loop, you should not be able to see the beginning of the video or the end but rather have them blend in to each other. You have to move your character from out of the frame, into the frame by slow movement in which you create one frame for each little move you do on your character. After the character has reached the middle of the frame then you use the puppet warp tool to animate the character gif to do whatever you want. After this movement with the puppet warp is done you may exit the frame and your done with a short GIF.

.MOV Film Festival

My keywords for my new sitcom project are pidgin, slang, exaggeration, learning and fitting in. Pidgin can relate to anyone who lives in or has visited Hawaii since it is widely spoken throughout the islands. Pidgin is basically english but spoken in the Hawaiian slang. My second keyword, slang, can be relatable because every place you visit there is probably a certain type of slang they speak. In the story, Lester and Raghav are trying to learn Pidgin after their friend greets them in the foreign slang. My third keyword, exaggeration, relates to the how Lester and Raghav exaggerate the Hawaiian slang and my audience could probably relate to over exaggeration at least once in their lives. My fourth keyword, learning, is represented in our story as the conflict while Lester and Raghav try to learn what Kalani was teaching them and everybody can relate to having a hard tim learning something in the past or present. My final keyword is fitting in and that is what Lester and Raghav are doing in the sitcom and many people have always had trouble fitting in.

Our overall message is to not try so hard to fit in or else non one is gonna want to be your friend for someone you aren't. Fitting in is a really universal problem as everyone has experienced sometime in their lives. Raghav and Lester were trying to fit in by learning pidgin. In the story, Raghav and Lester learn that they've been trying to hard to fit in. After they realize this they spend the rest of their time with Kalani.

This overall was a pretty tough project and didn't come out the way I had pictured it in my head. It was really hard to find strangers to work with us at the beach and to even look for the right people. Most people had rejected our request mostly because of them not wanting to be one camera. The biggest difficulty was trying to get everyone of us to meet up at the airport which was one of the scenes we hadn't done yet. This was soon fixed by a simple green screen.