Animation first Session

Today we had our first animation session so we just had a play around with everything to see how it worked. We were using XM2 cameras to take pictures and 'I can animate' software. We used toy animals and a power ranger in our animations we made- it is very hard to make a character look like it is moving properly when it is made out of plastic and can't bend it's knees!

Our films are quite crude but they helped us get an insight into how the software worked and also how long it might take us to make something decent! The video below is about 8 seconds long and it has  98 frames so I will have to do a lot of frames to make my final animation 20-30 seconds long. Also it will take more time to make because I will use different camera shots in it and not just have the camera static like in these films and also have to make a background amongst other things.