Rotoball Difficulty

For the last couple weeks we have been working with the rotoball project. It was been an amazing project. I think that the biggest difficulty was transforming the real video into the animated video. It was a job that was slit in different parts; the tracing, the background, and the ball! I did the ball part first. It took me no more than one hour to get the job completed! This "difficulty" was not something that someone couldn't overcome. It is something that solves itself with some time. I think that people didn't see this job as a difficulty and just did what they HAD to have done, without putting some of their effort. If everyone put their effort into their work, the problems would be minimal and be able to get solved really easy. I won't judge a lot other people's projects because I know mine is not that perfect but still we could have all done a much better job.

8th Grade RotoBall from mistermark on Vimeo.

The Rotoball Changes

Today in class we finally saw the first draft of the complete video! I was kind of shocked because it looked so much a like the first video we saw! I really think ALL of us could make some changes. Specially those persons who didn't put as much effort to this project as they could have done so. In my case, I actually think I put a lot of effort into it. ☻ Today, when we watched the first video, I realized my job wasn't completely done. You weren't able to watch me because of the background. I changed the background to a lighter color so you can see the trace better! I actually took a lot of time with the trace, while other people finished the trace in two days! D: I think all of those people should put more effort into cool projects like this -.-

My Rotoball Video

For the last couple weeks, we have been using Macromedia Flash to make our own rotoball video! At first I thought of it as kind of random but as time went by i rally liked this project. This rotoball video is REALLY cool because it is like a real video but jsut as an animation. I think that the major difficulty in this project was to trace yourself. I don't think that as much as a difficulty but more of lack of time. For every frame you have to trace yourself. I think I kind of messed it up when I traced myself with a really thin marker. In my final work, you can barely see myself! D: Maybe I could have just used a bolder marker but still the video looks great. If I had to do the project again, maybe I could change what happens with the ball. I didn't see it as original but still I liked it ☻. I could also trace myself with a bigger brush and make the background better.