Stop Frame Reflection Essay

I have just finished a stop frame animation project with my two partners, Tommy and Couran. It was about Juan Ponce De Leon. Who was an explorer who tried to find the fountain of youth and was unsuccessful. On his expedition he was shot by and Indian and died. This was a fun and difficult project, but it was worth doing. We also put it on You Tube for people all over the world to watch. This is the last part of my project; the project was very long and took a number of weeks.

The part of this project I thought was most fun was working with the clay and audio. I thought this was the most fun because we got to choose what we wanted our characters to look like and what we wanted them to say. We also added some music in the beginning and ending of our animation. That was also fun because the music kind of fitted the parts where we put it in. I liked watching the animation once it was done, because I thought we did an excellent job on the project and it makes me proud.

I thought the most difficult part of the project was trying to get all of the information about Juan into the animation. This was hard because our scenes weren’t very long and it was hard to talk about it in our audio part of the animation. But we did get most of the information we needed into the animation and it turned out better than I thought it would. Another thing that was difficult was getting all of our audio in the right place. The reason this was difficult was because we did our audio before our last scene. When we put the last scene in it moved the audio and we had to fix it.

The most important thing I learned while doing this project was to take your time and do a good job on every part of a project. I think if we had taken more time on our backgrounds, and done a better job on them it would have made our animation look a lot better. That is one thing I learned, and we I had done a better job on. The backgrounds we made were just slapped together so we would have more time for our animation, which made our animation look not as good as it could have.

Even though I am finished with my stop frame animation I still wish I could go back and do more on some parts of it. I did have fun on this project and I wish we could do another stop frame animation as a project because I liked it so much. But it was also very difficult and I would take more time on it if we did another one. I would choose to do it on something other than an explorer because it would be kind of boring if we did it again. Other than the backgrounds I thought we did really good on this project and if we do it again I will be sure to spend more time on them.