Animation!

ANIMATION Opening Sequence:

Now onto the opening sequence! If you are coming from my last blog post, hey ;) that was alot of information that I hope made sense!

But in this blog I am blogging about how we actually got the ANIMATION portion to be a possibility. I am so ecstatic. And thats not sarcasm.

SOOOOO....

I was casually scrolling on Instagram reels one day -as one without tik tok does because it makes her feel less guilty and addicted- when a video popped up (yes the universe was trying to get in contact with me😅😅) It was a reel about different animation sites that this animator used throughout her animation journey

I attempted to search some of these up, but most of them I had to pay. So, I headed to the comment section. And found rina.0fficial saying:

Hey me too Rina. This was enough for me to go to and download flipaclip to try it out. I watched a couple of the tutorial videos the app had to offer, leading me to create this cinematic masterpiece:

 

 which then led me to realize that I am not going to be able to animate this and make it look good!

So, while I did find an easy app to use, my sister and I now had to find someone that could assist us with this animation sequence. And thankfully we have our friend named Cecilia Bolanos.

Cecilia is one of our best friends, and she has a hidden talent of being able to draw really well, which is amazing because that was our main concern. We approached her with this idea and asked her for the favor

SHE SAID YES!

We spent the rest of the call giving her our vision, but we also trusted her to take her own creative liberty because we know hee type of drawings and like her creative inputs.  Here is a video of us on facetime

We wanted to have us animated (like said in the last blog post, this is going to be a 30 sec story of us going through a mob of antisocial, tech people and then us meeting the five groups we will be documenting), and this is what she came up with 😁 

OVERVIEW:

When thinking about the animation, we didn't just want to unintentionally make an animation sequence. We chose to make an animation sequence because of one, a stylistic choice, and second, we wanted to engage the younger age range of our target audience and we thought presenting the information in this unique way would assist in doing that. This way of presenting the information also helps reinforce the idea of looking at society and connection from a different perspective, by presenting the information in a different way too. Overall, we are very happy we are able to complete the animation sequence :)

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