Midterm Project: Rough Cut

Midterm Project: Rough Edit.

In this rough edit, I have experimented with transitions between scenes and actions, as well as using depth of field to shift the focus of the animation itself. Currently, despite redirecting my focus on more realistic construction, the story told is the same as the one discussed in class. The lazy worker ends up causing the entire building they're working on to collapse.

I feel that a few of my shots are a bit too long. I want to take another pass and speed a couple of areas up, while addressing pop-in and awkward perspective shifts. The positioning of the cranes is still a bit suspect, and I wonder if I could reanimate a scene or two to make the story more concrete. In addition to it, the worker with the blue hat has an extra arm that pops up in what little is rendered of the animation.

I've been trying to render my work in After Effects prior to this morning, but I think the size of my files is restricting the output of the render itself. I've currently tried to render on my home computer, and is trying to render another one in the macs in the lab. My next step is to render the video in parts, and compile it in quicktime for today's presentation.

I've been wondering if I should add sound to the animation, but I want to focus on getting my animation out of the computer first.