Animation Outtakes

To start off fourth quarter we are doing a projects called "Tell Your Story". There are seven teams and in each team there are about four people. On my team is Kuumomi, Lilio, and Kaylynn. While working with Kuumomi, Lilio, and Kaylynn, I learned many things about them. Lilio is great with words and knows just how to faze things right. She's also a very creative person and can create what she envisions better than most. Kuumomi is great with animation, as well as a lot of things in photoshop. She also likes to say chicken nugget when she doesn't know the answer to something or what to put. I learned that Kaylynn does not just fire dance, but she also dances hip-hop. I also learned she is a very ambitious and enthusiastic person.

For this project we will be needing to use animation. One of the most common types of animation is stop-motion. Stop-motion is a type of animation that manipulates the subjects or subjects you have in your animation to appear as if they are moving. You would create a stop-motion animation by taking a picture of your subject(s), move the subject(s) a bit, take a picture, and repeat this action until you have enough photos to create the illusion of movement. You would them have to put them together in Photoshop or iMovie. Gifs are another form of animation that are quite popular and common. Gif stands for Graphics Interchange Format, it's a compressed animation file that repeats itself automatically. Below you can see my examples of a stop-motion and GIF animation.

So, for "Tell Your Story" we had to choose an experience one of our teammates had and create an animation about it. We chose to do our project On Kaylynn and one of her stories that involved her dancing. The plot; Kaylynn was inspired by a TV show on dancing and decided to sign up for dance classes, but not everything is great dance moves and smiles. Kaylynn doesn't get the dance moves right away and her teacher confronts her about it in an inappropriate way. Kaylynn takes the teachers words to heart and starts to doubt herself, but she isn't alone, a friend of hers that is also into dance helps Kaylynn to overcome her doubts and the teachers insults. They work together and become great dancers, this takes them to Italy with their other teammates, and Kaylynn, as well as her teacher sees, how determination and not giving up can take you to extraordinary places. We hope that this story will help people to see that there will people out there who will bring you down, but there are also those who want to help you up, and you can almost anything, you just have to not give into those people and believe their nasty words. If you believe in yourself, if you don't give up, you can do amazing things, just like Kaylynn.