Game Designer
Maestro Madness
Background
Team Size: 5
Made Between February 2016 to May 2016
Tools Used: Adobe Photoshop, Flash, & Premiere Pro/After Effects
Story
The story is about a little girl who wanted to perform in her school's talent show. As she was practicing for her performance, she is met with a monster who resembles her nervousness to stand in front of the crowd. She tries to run away from this monster until she remembers her father who passed on his music to her. It was only then that she was able to overcome her fear and fight back with her father's music.
Roles
Prop Artist
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Drew the props (music stand, theater seats, music sheet) in the animation so that it shows what is being interacted between the characters and space that they are in.
Editor
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Cleaned up all of the characters and scenes, using Adobe Photoshop, so that there the characters and scenes don't look too much out of place.
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Edited the whole animation together through Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro to generate the final rought cut of the animation.
Lessons Learned
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Learned a lot about creating animations and its processes with the help of making the animation through Adobe Suites.
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Conceptualized the animation by storyboarding the short and making choices over the team's concept drawings.
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Communication was an important value to having everyone know where they are at in process of their part in animation.