Reflection

Making the animation let me get more comfortable with using Photoshop and creating animations from there, as I am still somewhat unfamiliar with CS6. Our process was quite logical, so I wouldn't change much there - but I did make a few mistakes while drawing out the intermediate frames, so if I could do something different, it would be to have been more careful in keeping track of which frame I was at so that I could have executed the process more efficiently.

-- Azer

Doing the animation made me appreciate animators on a higher level. The intense amount of detail to maintain smoothness between frame to frame was very difficult and relied on several hours. If I could do it again, I would do more research on animation techniques and how to keep track of the frames so it would be a much smoother process.

-- Sarah

Editing the audio part made me more familiar with finding sources and using tools. Since the visual part was made first(really cool!), I had to find music that corporates with the images well. As a beginner in audio making, I did not have too much intuition of what kinds of audio I should use, so I just listened to every single piece and imagined how they would work together with the images, then chose the best one as the source. The audio making process was not bad, but I still have a lot to improve. For example, the joining parts of two separated music is not smooth enough, and the loudness of different elements should be adjusted. Since our images are morphing, I don't need to adjust the exact time of the music to the shapes, but only a rough timing. Michelle added the tritone part and I really liked it. The spooky audio now works as the background, giving people a sense of uncertainty. 

-- Mingquan Chen

Putting together the animation with the audio given to me was pretty refreshing, as I got to see how the audio and visual parts matched up and could fix things if there were issues. I also got to share things with the group, see how they liked things.  Like Ming, I am also not a sound person, but taking the spooky BGM Ming made and mixing in some tritones and Shephard tones was an interesting experience, though next time I think I will tone down the decibel level of the tritones.  Figuring out how to incorporate tritones so they fit the images with Mings spooky sounds was a challenge though.  

-Michelle Zhong