Working with Students - Workshop 2: Amy
Today I was working with Amy in this mornings session. For her contribution to the PH project she has focused on the Symptoms of PH. She had chosen to focus this on children and how they my relate to a family member who has been diagnosed with PH. The difficulty in this is that the main four symptoms to look out for could actually be present in many people but not in fact be at risk of PH.
Her characters were highly stylised (very different from Kurtis’ minimal approach to his communication) and therefore trickier to place in context.
Discussing this with Amy we came to the conclusion that rather take a veiw of this as I did with Kurtis the week before, and use a mode of Motion Graphics, the animation must be more simplified. With this in mind we animated frame by frame digitally. Together we found ways of animating each character to fit the symptom they were highlighting.
Amy had made sequential moving imagery before for previous project outcomes such as GIFs but not looked into adapting these into more sophisticated movements. This was a good opportunity, show how characters can be prepared for animation and simple movements.
The out come of the session was that together we created four characters with four animated sequences that require processing for the video.