Design Options

The reason I chose this as the final design for the animation is because halloween is soon and at the end of the day i decided to go for a spooky themed animation with a tree without leaves and a halloween pumpkin, at the beginning i was gonna do a goofy scene where a little booger was coming out of a persons nose, although this idea is still kept in the current animation, i decided to add a bit more of a theme to it 

I plan to design my set with an orange lighting so that way it has kind of an obscure light like as if it is 6 pm or something like that since at that time of the day light is fading i will add a pumpkin with a candle inside for it to have an emission effect and at the end of the day the design will have been with warm colors as well as having repetition and informal balance 

Timing and spacing in animation is very important, it makes it so the object that is being animated looks more realistic and smooth instead of having it be an unrealistic animation that looks robotic more than anything, it can help portrait the use of gravity in an animation. an example of this could be when you drop an object, every frame the object will have a bigger space than it had before since the acceleration of gravity is positive, and so that to the viewer it seems like the object is accelerating

Camera movements can be used in many ways to create different kinds of feelings to the audience examples of these can be to make the audience feel like something is coming or like the main character is big compared to what he is about to face or vice versa

camera moving in - creating emotion in the character
crane down - being dropped into the scene
crane up - character being seen as small compared to what he will face
crane high to low angle - makes character look strong
hand held camera - sense of unease
quick pan - character has to overcome something
slow dolly in - create tension
slow dolly out - you want them to overcome something
dolly across - revels something that changes emotion
glide-cam camera - feel epic
glide cam 360 - gives you a calm feeling

History of Animation

 

Mickey Mouse was a character that interested me, since I have liked the old cartoons for a while he was first created by Walt Disney in 1928, at first he was created because Disney wanted a replacement for a character named  Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, he first appeared in a short called plane crazy, he also was one of the first cartoons that had sound with the animation he has appeared in a total of 130 films. he first started appearing in short films but then went to full length films afterward ten of mickeys films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film he also was the first cartoon character to have a Hollywood star.

Mickey Mouse was first a black and white cartoon from 1929-1935 in 1932 he first appeared in color in the parade of the award nominees however the film wasn't released to the public. in 1935 his first color film  came named  the band concert, this would then be voted the third greatest cartoon of all time, afterwards Disney decided to redesign mickey in order to put him back on top after the redesign mickey became more popular. Walt then received an award from the League of Nations for creating Mickey Mouse, then in the 1940's he was redesigned in the little whirlwind however this new design didn't last for long since he was returned to his design that was used in the pointer. 

Mickey Mouse then had a show called The Mickey Mouse Club, this is where he was competing against Warner bros' bugs bunny for animated popularity, and afterwards they shared some screen time in the film who framed roger rabbit. Mickey Mouse has had many shows as well like for example mickey mouse works which was an ABC show and Disney's house of mouse and also the mickey mouse club house which aired between 2006 and 2016 and since 2013 Disney has been airing Mickey mouse shorts which are of a total of three minutes

Character Modeling

 Birds Eye Shot

Worms Eye Shot

Close Up Shot 

Chilaquiles Shots

Eye Level Shot

Long Shot

Close Up Shot

Birds Eye Shot

Worms Eye Shot

I think the biggest challenge in this project was working with fluids as well as adding the correct materials this was difficult because there were times where the fluids would not work correctly, or the materials did not look how I expected them to look so I had to change them or made them darker or a different color.

Two Mackenzie

Kenz by jokercharly84 on Sketchfab

One Mackenzie

Food Examples

Image Texture Diagram