Sophomore Animation Final!

The scope of this project to bring together the three main points that we learned this semester, which were how to fuse 3D modeling with real life, using special effects to make something blow up, and using a green screen.

We used storyboards to make the basic gist of the project, using little drawings and graphics to make it seem fun. After that, we went out into a random hallway in our school, filmed, and then went into our green screen room near the convergence journalism room, and filmed the black and white shots. After that, we went back to our classroom, and had a group member make the 3D grenade model, pieced it all together, and then we finished! TADA!

We learned that filming in an improperly lit green screen room is absolute *bleeped out word*, and that trying to work with that kind of green screen sucks. They desperately need proper lighting in that room. We also learned that working in a team with an animation project is one of the hardest things in the entire world, so patience is key.

We would have gone down to the green screen room and filmed earlier, as well as started the modeling process for our grenade earlier so we weren't rushing to get it done at the end.

What we would have done the same was the overall story. It was fun to make, and actually worked out in the end.

Overall, this project was challenging, fun, and very rewarding in the end. I'm glad we got it done at the time that we did, and I know that the skills that I learned are going to come in handy when I continue my high school year.