Evaluation

I am quite pleased with the final piece I have produced for the animation practice module. I had chosen to work mainly in Adobe Flash to produce the main body of the rotoscoped animation. The footage I had was of an old silent film so the quality wasn’t great and therefore some elements were fairly difficult to trace as they were pixelated. I feel this led to some erratic movement in parts of the animation and if my footage had been better the animation would have been smoother. If I had to redo this module I would film my own footage of someone impersonating Charlie Chaplin in that particular scene and use that instead. I decided to stylise my animation using black outlines and filled my character with white. If I had more time I would have liked to colour my character in various shades of gray, black and white to make him appear more realistic.  I would have also liked to have gone in to more detail in the background as I feel this would have added more depth to the animation, maybe including some shading.

The overall finish of the animation is quite pleasing. I would have liked to have done more work on the title cards, made them more decorative but I felt that my time was best spent rotoscoping my animation frames as the movement of the character was most important. I am happy with the grainy distresses effect of the footage and also the use of the circular wipe out to end the animation. The music used in the final piece is from the original Charlie Chaplin film but I would have liked to have composed something of my own to make it more original to me.

Overall, I enjoyed the module and I found myself becoming engrossed in the rotoscoping of the footage. I would definitely rotoscope again as there was nothing more satisfying than completing that final frame!