Additional scene after the desk. It's a closer view of the kid's desk as he talks; I picked a Newton's Cradle because I was trying to think of what a tacky/pretentious desk accessory a boss would have. I might play around with the clarity of the toy; it'll begin as out of focus and then adjust.

Originally, the whole overall project idea was to follow this short narrative with other short stories within the same universe. But after doing these animations I'm realizing that I'm super not interested in doing a straightforward narrative and it's not really satisfying. I want to stick with this style and universe setting but return to subtle animations within an environment/setting; with sound effects. At this point, I don't know if it'd be better to just finish this animation before moving on to those or just scrapping this.

April Fools Experiment

Experimentation with Perspective

New final project

http://gamingroommate.tumblr.com/

With a sudden stroke of inspiration at 2am, while being sleep-deprived by my loud, obnoxious gamer roommate, I decided I wanted to animate some of the phrases he screams whilst gaming (because he says the strangest things).

So instead of one full video clip, I aim to do a bunch of GIFs.  It was suggested to me that I remove the context, which might make it a bit more captivating to be reading a bunch of phrases/seeing a bunch of animations that don't really make sense.  Thoughts?

Another World Included

I have drawn some scenes for another world where the rabbit and the other creature adventure. So far, I really enjoyed what I have done and am excited to include other worlds. The number of the worlds will be 4 to 5 including reality. For another world following the silhouette scene, I will use After Effects. (This time, the world will be colored.) I am working with Photoshop for elements to play with After Effects.
It is actually hard to find sounds that are perfectly suitable for each world, but so far I have used sounds from Final Cut Pro and free sounds from online. Also, I have friends who are in music major so will ask them to get advice.

pizza animatic

Battle Scene

Fight sequence from David Chang on Vimeo.

I continued with use after effect with the slightly moving images I've always wanted to use the "marvel comic" looking animation on the battling scene of my animation and here it is using it it think this slow movement really brings out the dramatic atmosphere to whole animation

Maxted_Interviews

MEMORIES - Audio Samples from Manami Maxted on Vimeo.

Here are a few audio samples from some interviews I conducted.  I chose to include my voice in the interviews because I wanted the stories to be conversational.  I also wanted to be included because the people that I interviewed have affected me in one way or another, and I hoped that the project would come across as personal.

I'm within the process of editing the audio now.  You might notice the low hum in the background; though I don't mind the table creaking or the ruffling of clothing so much, I simply can't stand the loud ambient sound.  I'm having a hard time reducing these sounds in Final Cut Pro... Any suggestions?  Should I try to use a different program?

As soon as the audio is edited (each interview down to about a minute), I will be storyboarding, then going right to animating.  Of course, I'm hoping to use some of the rotoscoped footage that I worked on earlier this semester (the clips that I animated for The Great God Pan), but I still have a lot to go.