Final Video

Evaluation.

Working on this project was extremeley enjoyable, although we came across many problems we managed to complete the animation.
Over all i think there are many faults with our animation, in all honesty it hasnt come out all as we expected. problems such as the armiture not being able to walk made things unbelievably difficult for us, we started looking for ways to cheat the audience, such as filming from his waist up and skipping scenes where he needed to walk. This dissapointed me as we should have paid greater attention to the armiture rather than panicking about time and going straight in to filming. If i could do this again, i would make sure all armitures are all 100% functional in the way we need them to work. Having to make the armiture three times made us lose our confidence in creating a piece of animation because everything was proving to go the other way, absolutley nothing was happening in our favour. I think teh most succesful scene throughout the entire animation would be the ending where the Yeti is angry to sad. I think this scene has the strongest lighting and camera angles. All the scenes with the man were jittery and not smooth at all, the reason being we didnt use dragon. We couldnt fit our set anywhere where there was a computer and so we ended up filing in the dark room but even though there is a mac in there, we couldnt log in to it, we had this problem throughout the entire process of filming and this made it very hard to keep the characters motions consistent. Problems with they set also arose when we tried to decorate the living room and bathroom, the glue made streaks and the paper wasnt big enough to cover the whole set so you can see parts where the paper has been cut and overlapped which is a shame but we have learnt from this, over all our conlcusion has come to "using cardboard is a terrible idea". It moves while your trying to film, its difficult to cut and smooth out and it cant be decorated easily. In future i think wood is the best option for sets.
On the other hand, I really enjoyed working on this project, it was challnging and i learnt an unbelievable amount of imformation from working hands on with everything and working with things such as props and lighting, it was a great experience.