Catbot

 Tada! My final animation. As promised: Very messy, very janky, but it's my first animation and I'm on the edge of carpal tunnel syndrome so I'm satisfied with it. 

Animation Work In Progress: Catnap

A sneak peek at my work in progress: 

I feel like rendering this sample image was time wasted during a very demanding, time-consuming assignment--no one is going to comment on this until after they've finished their final assignment, like has happened every week in this course because my classmates understand how to prioritize, so it'll be too late by then. Really this stuff takes so much time to nail down, especially if you're not super steady-handed by nature, it's already too late, at least for me. Maybe it's just because of my disabilities, but for this janky-ass 11-second clip I worked probably 25 hours or more, and I lost another four hours figuring out how to export it to gif format (none of the video formats would take for some reason) and typing this up. 

I'm learning a lot from this assignment, and I look forward to putting the conclusions of my trial-and-error into use in the future for my own projects. I'm learning my limitations--the storyboard I made is way way way way waaaayyyy too involved for me to finish it in time, and it would take a lot longer to finish the planned product than I have available for this assignment, for example, so it'll be truncated and messy. I figure that's to be expected of a first animation project. I really wish there'd been more guidance for this project, a forewarning of the amount of extra work I was getting myself into or something, so I didn't have to readjust the plan this late, or even just more time. If this were my only class it wouldn't be a problem, but it's one of three.

Animation Storyboard: Catnap

 

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Catnap: a thirty-ish second animation wherein a curious cat wakes up and makes friends with a robot.