February 18th 2016

We had our first tutorial with our class coordinator and we were each given a certain amount of tasks and research to complete for the next tutorial. We were told to not really start making anything until we had the whole thing researched, exactly what kind of style we are going for, the different techniques we could use to pull off that style, etc. The main focus was to figure out our target demographic and what kind of tone we want to set for the piece. 

As I am the co. animator, I decided to research different techniques that we could avail of in programs such as after effects and photoshop. Luckily for me, there are so many tutorial videos for these kinds of techniques, I was looking at one in particular which borrows some elements from adobe flash which we might need to take into consideration: 

Elemental Animation 016 How to Animate Rain

I also wanted to look at some animations that use the certain style that we are trying to go for. I really like these animation sequences, even though it doesn't seem like that much is going on, the animations still feel fluid and dynamic.