FeedBack

So I've got some feedback on my app. I think it went quite well but as always theres certain i could of improved on. Here are good and bad bits of my crit.

Good
- Animation was cute and charming
- Colour scheme was nice
- good composition on the portrait version
- Good Choice of music

Bad
- Didnt need "history" section
- didnt involve football side enough into the app
- would of liked it slightly different on ipad, not just bigger scale

I can completly understand the sides to the feedback and if we had time, i would include the football more in alot more and changed the composition on the landscape edition.

After Effects

I used several tools in after effects while creating my animation; however i had "main" tools that i used and focused on here they are;

Position;

Scale;

Rotation; 

Opacity;

This simple and key tools, really helped me in this project.

Preview

So Here is a preview of my IPhone app, its only something little but its like its an ad from apple :)

My App

For my app, its going to be simple and fun. The main page is going to consist of 4 key links to other pages and having a main fixed button on all pages, which is going to be the tree of which this connects to the main home page. I made some buttons that will be used in the App. 

NOT IN HIGH QUALITY!


Also, whilst making the backgroud of the app, i was suggested to make the background textured to make it look like cider (e.g. bubbles and colour.) After "having a go" at making these i found out that it works alot better then a box standard gradient.

Below is Textured (top) - Gradient (bottom)

First Draft Of Animation

Here are a few screen shots of my early animation. Its at a rough stage at the moment. I will also put in the animatic towards the same clip in just to show the progress.

Animation Ideas

When thinking of ideas, I really stuggled to think where to start however it was down to watching films that i got ideas.

The idea that i think i might go with is based upon the film 300 ending sequence. I really liked the whole 3d effect of the moving objects to become the storyline. I think the strongest part of it was the silouhette effect, i think it can be really strong if you wanted to have one thing to stand out (e.g. Apple)  Here a some screen shots of the ending title's of 300.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm4B_y7c2Dw

After getting some feedback on the potential of my idea, other people recommended that i looked at other things they think are simular and see if i get any ideas from that. One of the things i looked at was the same sort of things but real life and that was indian puppets. Here is a few snap shots of a video from youtube. 

I want to make my silouettes look like a hand made feel to them however not so much they are puppets. I really like how the puppets arnt a smooth motion between actions and might try and use that in my animation.