Interim Crit and rethinking my Animation Storyboard

This was both a useful and frustrating crit for me. Useful because it gave me constructive criticism as to what I was doing wrong; the things I had completely missed or ignored that were very important to my animation. Frustrating because I had overlooked something, meaning I had to take a step back and rethink my storyboard when I wanted to just carry on creating my animation.

The main problem I had with my first animation was that there were too many transitions and random features in there that I had added without thinking how they were contributing to my piece. I completely lost the feel of a news programme theme and needed to take a step back and look at what I needed in my animation instead of what I wanted to make it look pretty. I had to stop thinking about the technicalities of what I was doing, worrying about how I was going to do it and think more of what look I was going for and take things from there.

In addition, I was told to consider the typography I chose as this would give a feel for what style I was going for overall. The idea of using hand-drawn illustrations alongside vector images didn't work well. Even though I had reason for doing this, there was too much contrast between the two styles which made it confusing and not work well as an animation.

One of the tutors suggested that I use live feeds and have a television in the top right hand corner as well as scrolling text along the bottom to make it look more like a newsroom. This was frustrating because it was exactly what I had in my first storyboard I came up with, but because I thought it would be too much work, I gave up that idea. So, I went back to re-editing my storyboard and went back to using my first storyboard.