Our Animation Story

In my group, my team did a story on Kiara's past, when she was moving to Kauai. We started off with our first scene being a Stykz animation of her stretching in gym and being called outside and getting asked to help her teacher gather the important papers for her leaving. The second scene was them doing so using stop-motion animation. The third scene was her being surprised by a goodbye party for her, done with more stop-motion animation. The fourth scene was her friends carrying her to a car and her leaving in the car, and this was done using PhotoShop stop-motion animation. The fifth and final scene was her leaving on a plane and opening a letter sent by her friends to let her know that they still care about her and miss her.

Our focus statement was "Kiara Receives Party" and this tells the truth considering the entire story is about a party that was made for her by her friends before she left. The point of this story is to show that your friends care about you and that can't be broken even by completely moving where you live, and this is shown through her friends' letter to her. This is our way of helping the audience understand the moral of the story.

Our best moment as a team was near the end when we were completely synchronized in our work and trying desperately to meet or exceed the requirements. This was our best moment because we worked together perfectly. Our worst moment was when none of us had certified jobs and we didn't know which parts each of us should work on. This was the worst part because it was chaotic.

I was not satisfied with the results below, and I hope to do better in the future.