Image and Sound Assignment

This is my finished piece of the assignment. this first one was making a soundtrack to go along with a silent piece of animation.

https://vimeo.com/127455357

With this piece I used various sources for my sounds, mainly freesound.org, a website to get most of them. I also wanted to use the sounds that we gathered ourselves so I kept the ones I had already put it as I liked them, even though they are a bit rough. If I could I would imrpove this by making the sounds smoother or even experimenting more with sounds.

This video is my animation to a given soundtrack.

https://vimeo.com/127562178

For this I used soundtrack 1, of the three soundtracks we were given. At first I thought it had a very industrial feel, but as I listened to it more I started to think of sword clashes. So I decided to base it on one of my favourite Gods, that being Guan Yu. This allowed me to experiment more. I got to practice more with my graphics tablet, which I'm still getting used to, hence the sketchy drawings. I used a black background and empty spaces to isolate the sword clashes, that way it reminded me of the limited animations of a saturday morning cartoon. I would improve this by adding colour, clearing up the lines, extending it to tell more of a story, and making sure it didn't move as quickly as it does at times. This is because I didn't stick to the rules of two, I have learned from this and will make sure to not do it in the future.