from Danielle Zayas on Vimeo.

the “Critical Mass” project had a prompt that called for creating a animatic for an allegory. I chose to use photosynthesis for my project. With photosynthesis I wanted to incorporate an idea that was relevant to my own life. The design decisions that I chose to go through included: my concept for my allegory which was to have a mother baking, while her daughter watches, as that happens, she eventually absorbs the information needed to bake cupcakes of her own, which then leads her into wanting to own her own bakery some day. My work embodies the concept by just how a plant absorbs light from the sun, which then supplies the plant with energy to absorb nutrients to grow big and tall, I tried to bring that through with my concept with showing the daughter absorbing information about baking, then her using the information she gathered to create her own sweets.

When I was given this project, I was nervous since I had never used AfterEffects before. Though, I feel I made both good and poor design decisions. I feel that I excelled in this project with the way I animated eyes, and mouth movements. Also I feel that I made good decisions on how I brought in my titles. With that being said, I also made poor decisions. I feel I did poorly on my concept and also audio. I liked the concept that I had chosen, but once I started to animate and work on it, I started to see that I could have thought of an idea that could have worked a little better with photosynthesis.