Book Project (Overview and Rough Animation)

Hello! My class is completing a book project for this quarter. We had to think of a book to animate. It has to be short and sweet. We will be later be giving the books we animated to Children's Mercy Hospital.

At first, I was planning on animating Jim Carrey's book How Roland Rolls. As I talked to my teacher about what I should do for the book I realized that, with the excessive details in the book and the complications of animating water, I decided to change my story. I changed to Bob and Larry's Silly Slides by Cindy Kenney! I have always loved VeggieTales, so I thought this would be the perfect animation! The programs I am using are After Effects and Illustrator.

VeggieTales logo for the animation

Here are my storyboards. They aren't exactly like the rough animation, but there are some aspects of it that are similar. These are drawings of how I want the animation to look. I did not add Bob and Larry bouncing on screen for the rough.

Page 1

Page 2

I also used Illustrator to color in the pages. It was fun to see what I could do with this program, since I have never used it before for a project. What you see below are before and after pictures of the book, like this example. I did not draw every single detail in each page. There are some bits and pieces of it that seem crooked, and I will fix those pieces for the final animation.

Before

After

And last but not least, here is the rough animation, fully recorded with sound. This animation is very fun to work on so far, and I can't wait to see what I can do for the final animation!      

I would say my rough animation is okay. It's not the best, but hey-what are rough animations for? It's simply just practice for how you want your final animation to look! As for what I will do for the final, I will make sure it will definitely be better than the rough, using creative camera movements and an effect that will make the flaps pop. I am done with the Illustrator pages, so completing everything and making the animation perfect will be my main plan of attack. I am currently in the process of how I want my new and improved animation to look. I am thinking of moving objects in After Effects and maybe making some typography.