Kyle Mungenast's UTampa Animation 1 Blog

First project: rotoscope animation.  The clip I traced over for the project was a deleted scene from a short film my girlfriend and I made.  Here is the original footage: This was a really fun project to work on; while the frame by frame took a long time, it was a really great process and it almost reminded me of stop motion.  I really liked working on drawing the characters, and something else cool was being able to draw a new background; since I am from Massachusetts, my western did not really look like I western since I didn't have the landscape.  However, in Adobe Animate I was able to draw a western landscape and add a cactus in place of a tree; this was a lot of fun. I had a great time working on the rotoscope project; not only did I get to learn and appreciate the techniques behind creating a rotoscope, but it was also a great way to get comfortable with adobe animate, and it offered some exciting challenges which were great to work through and...

The bouncing ball with obstacle was a great first project which started getting me used to flash and excited for animation class.  The obstacle I chose was the factory from the album cover of Pink Floyd's "Animals", and for the bouncing ball, I struggled at first with the size changing throughout the animation, but took on the challenge and found some solutions to work through it.