I wanted stick to the challenge of making a film a day; so to have one completed animation to show for each day. This was a good exercise in decision making and rationality - I couldn't be over ambitious! Thinking up what to do for the films was challenging in such a short time, but overall it gave me a lot of inspiration and ideas for future films/animations.
It was also a chance to experiment and try new things. Most of the films I made are more like short animation exercises, as I felt this would be the best way to use the two weeks. I learnt a lot from doing some basic animal movements and walk cycles. For the different mediums I tried hand-drawn animation with pencil, pens, chalk on a blackboard, paint, marker pens on acetate, Adobe Flash and Adobe Photoshop animation (I also tried oil pastels but this didn't work so well so I didn't use it for a finished animation).
Just for fun (and as an easy way to group all the very short animations together), I have put together a wee showreel of some of the animations I made, with the theme of animals and different mediums. The password is "animal":
10 Films 10 Days - Animal Animation from Ali MacPherson on Vimeo.
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