The Finished Animation

Here is my animation for my extended practice. I have pretty much finished all of the animation but due to bad timing caused by sets not being ready on time and other issues that were out of my control, I have not had a chance to clean up the rigging and fix the flickering lights. 

I need to reshoot a couple of shots, including the opening scene as when I placed this in, it didn't look right and I decided to just place a still there for now. I will be going back into this before the exhibition. I will also be masking out the rigging and fixing the flickering lights before the exhibition too. I have all the clean backplates ready for this. 

I had a lot of issues with this project. My puppets kept breaking as the wire in them was prone to snapping. Really I should have splashed out on the more expensive armatures, but as I was working to a budget, I thought these would do the job. They held up for a couple of weeks of animating but towards the end, many limbs became dislocated as the wire snapped and they were very difficult to fix. 

I also had some issues with camera equipment and other people that I was working with and these put me quite a bit behind schedule, as my schedule was pretty tight to begin with.

Anyway, here is my animation. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out overall. 

Titles

Due to time and my limited ability with Premiere Pro and After effects, I have created a really basic opening sequence and closing credits. 

For the credits I just used a simple rolling sequence of all the people involved in this project and what they did, placed over a still image of one of the sets. This has a nice effect and is quite simple. 

For the opening title sequence, I had wanted to have the title 'Rumpelstiltskin' hanging from a branch as the camera moves through the trees, but none of the trees have branches on them as we kept them simple in order to get them finished in time. I then thought I'd just have the camera moving through the trees to then catch up to the miller and the daughter. I tried this but I couldn't work out how to make it look right and my attempts looked really shaky and strange. I would have liked to try and perfect this but as it's getting too close to the deadline, I didn't have enough time. I do intend to go back to it after the deadline and work out how to make this happen, but for now I have just used a still of the set and zoomed the camera in towards the wall in premiere. This will do for now but I do intend to re-do this before the exhibition and I will hopefully also have a nice title designed for me by then to put in too. I have just used a text that was provided in Adobe Premiere.