About This Video
This animation entitled, Daydreamin, was my final project for computer art I at Allegheny College. The basic guidelines of the project were to create an animation set to music and the duration of the animation had to be at least thirty seconds (mine was over four minutes). We could do any type of animation and use any style at our disposal.
I created a stop animation by drawing each frame in Photoshop and then importing all the frames into Macromedia Director MX. Once the frames were imported, I took each still frame and moved it to the timeline for all 1000+ imported images.
My theme for the project was to show a daydream that I had during my middle school years. I wanted the work to have a mystical effect and provide an escape to another world through the power of imagination.
The animation might seem a bit choppy running at roughly 6 frames a second but was quite remarkable for my experience at that time and the incredible time constraint I was under.
Daydreamin? was entered in the student show where it won a purchase award by the college. It is currently part of Allegheny?s permanent art collection.
This website uses Adobe® Flash™ Player 9
Download Flash Now
If you are using Internet Explorer, you will need to restart your browser
after installing Flash.
Adobe and Flash are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems incorporated.
All rights reserved.
