Comments on "Freedom"

Of all the projects we had this semester, this one proved to be the most challenging. Being completely new to After Effects, it was perhaps a bit ambitious to have an animation project come out in the exact way I imagined it, but I would like to think that I got a crash course in the basics of the program.

My idea was to have an art piece come to life on the page and attempt to escape the confines of its paper. Initially, I wanted to have it take place on a desk but the lighting and the need for consistency made it a bit too difficult. Instead I decided to have it take pace on the face of the refrigerator which I actually thought was an improvement from the first. In regards to the actual animation, I was disappointed with some of the motions and the pacing, as things were a little too slow for my taste (going back into After Effects and changing individual things was a bit too much for my timeframe). The first few seconds turned out well though, I thought, at least the scene where she's still moving in the paper.

Overall, I think there's a lot of room for improvement in regards to some of the animation aspects and though I'm not entirely dissatisfied with it, I think that this can be seen as more of a basic outline of what should be a bigger project.