The research is about a pixel art animation, that was used for a music video of a song called 2210 from the group Dravle Records. The purpose of the research was to examine the general field of animations, pixel art animations and their origin, present our animation, and thoroughly analyse the animation's making and its potential improvements.
The animation was made in two programs. Adobe Photoshop was used to prepare the graphic elements, while Adobe After Effects was used for the animation part. We used a graphic tablet to prepare the graphic elements. The whole animation was made on a Dell laptop. The production took about half a year, during which time we manually drew all the characters, backgrounds and additional graphics. We animated them with the use of many basic and advanced techniques.
The main objectives of the research were to get to know the field of animation better, study our animation in detail, discover possible mistakes in the process, and suggest improvements. At the same time, one of the primary goals was to improve personal animation skills and better prepare for future projects.
The goals were largely achieved. As a result of a carefully studied field of animations and the production process, during the re-examination of our animation we noticed many irregularities in its production and omitted procedures. The research mentions proposed improvements and methods to achieve these improvements.
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