Evaluating My Peers Animation Project

Evaluation of Peer's Project

As well as completing my own final animation project it was very important that as a seminar group we took the time to evaluate each others work also 

Group 1 – Life of a Student – Feb and Toni 

Feb and Toni used picture cut outs to create an animation of what the life of a student is like.

• I found that the fact that they used picture cut outs incredibly creative and thought by doing this they were able to use their clear artistic skills to come up with a great animation. 
• Although the clip did prove to be jumpy at some points, the picture cuts proved to be a great way of demonstrating fantastic stop motion. For example they drew and then traced over so image would stay static; such adding different eye placement to show a level of movement. 
• The concept they used was unique concept and nobody had thought to do anything near as similar. As well as this the girls used great music as sound effects to fit their concept well. 

Group 2 -Trystan  – The Lion and The Monkey 

• Trystan planned his animation very well, he drew up a story board to make sure everything fitted to realistic timing. This paid of really well as his sound effects were timed perfectly with what was happening on screen.
• One problem he did encountered was that as he completed it over a couple of days the lighting changed depending on the time of day. However he did make this work in his favour by changing his story around by making morning and night. 
• He chose a fantastic concept and based his story upon the original story of  the ‘Lion and the Mouse’ 
• This is Trystan's finished project below.

Group 3 –The Hungry Caterpillar - Luke, Keyleigh and Andrea 

• Group 3 used the well-known story of the hungry caterpillar by Eric Carle. They were even able to email him and gain his permission for its use in their animation.
• They had a great artistic use of Claymation whereby the caterpillar ate through a leaf for example.
• They did have trouble with the lighting as it changed however similarly to Trystan they used a change of days to overcome the problem. 
• Their animation was a bit jumpy and suffered slightly as this meant that it did lack a level of fluidity. However this was made up by a good use of well timed sound effects and narration.