Animated Life Lessons

P2T7 Blossom Learns Soccer from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

The latest project my G.T. class is working on is an animation. My teammates are Blossom Novoa and Jaesha Mata. Blossom's personal traits are thinking outside of the box, also very
adventurous and very creative. When I first met Blossom I was really shy but she was really open and wasn't afraid to be herself. After a couple of days I opened up to Blossom and I'm more out-going in front of her. Blossom is really nice and funny, she can also be really courageous and silly but can be shy and awkward. We plan on exaggerating her traits by making her character play a really awkward and shy girl that could use some friends. My other teammate is Jaesha. Jaesha is kind and silly. Jaesha is the type of person that doesn't care about what other people think of her, she is also really fun to be around. Jaesha is friendly and very optimistic. We plan on making exaggerating her traits by making her character be a very friendly person who gets kicked in the face by Blossom with  a soccer ball but is still friendly and kind to Blossom.

Jaesha and I

Blossom and I

Our animation is humorous because Jaesha gets kicked in the face and Blossom has a funny way of playing soccer. I think it will make our audience laugh because people like laughing at fail videos so that's kind of how we wanted to play out. Our life lesson or message relates my audience because it's an animation about not giving up and a lot of people give up at some points so I think our story relates to our audience because we want people to know that giving up is okay but we don't always have to give up. It's also about how not to give up and to believe in yourself and that you can do anything as long as you put your mind on it. Our animation is a life lesson because you can't always do things and accomplish them but you can try as long as you have faith in yourself. We chose to make our animation about not giving up because we can all relate. We all have had a moment in our life when we've wanted to give up.

Story Board

The level of productivity was a challenge in making this animation. Most of us didn't know how to animate and we were behind schedule. My teammates were frustrated that we couldn't get this done on time so they started getting mad at the person who did the less work. Communicating was also a big challenge, we've never talked altogether before so that was a big challenge because we were shy. The biggest challenge we faced was animating. Like I said most of us didn't know how to animate, puppet warp was hard because we didn't know what we were planning on doing for the scene. The best moment we had during this production was the laughs. We had a lot of laughs, recording was a really funny moment. We had to do screaming noises, loud cheers and

Story Board

Story Board

Critique Results

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