Animation Appreciation

Title has a nice ring to it, I'll admit. Anyway, our first project for our animation class was to pick an animator and present him/her to the class via any form of media: a paper, presentation, etc. The goal of this project was simple: to show our appreciation for animation and to educate the rest of the class on a particular animator.

As such, I chose David Hellman, who is the artist that did all the graphical work for an indie game called 'Braid', which I may or may not have ranted about before on here. Anyway, I did a short video for my project:

Why I chose to do an elaborate project instead of simply pumping out a 2-page paper? I have no idea. For some reason, the day before the assignment was due, I had a change of heart. Instead, I wrote over 500 lines of code, recorded the ending music, recorded voiceovers, captured video from the custom game output, and spliced all the audio and video together.

Notes: all of the actual Braid artwork (the character on screen, the backgrounds, all the good stuff) has been released for free by the artist himself...because indie game developers are awesome like that.

For everything else, I used Flixel, Debut Video Recorder, Cakewalk Sonar, Adobe Premiere, and SFXR.