Production Diary #1 - Animation & Game Design

09/11/2018

I have spent the last couple of sessions developing my animation mostly and have later briefly taken a look at the beginnings of my game. There is still a lot of work to do with my animation in order to follow my initial storyboard.

I begin by importing and finalizing the graphics for each letter of the Google logo which includes a firework background. I have designed them like this because I feel that they would suit the overall theme of the doodle and will turn out nicely in the end.

I used Photoshop text boxes and a recoloured image to create the letters. I originally had a white background on the graphics but later realised that I would need to remove background making it transparent in order for it to fit nicely onto my black sky within the animation.

Previous Google doodles have features the logo made with fireworks and so I have taken inspiration from my research into these doodles.

I think the animation has turned out quite good so far and I hope to ensure it continues to develop and work together nicely. Next I will need to create another set of scenes in order to follow my initial storyboard but I feel that what I have so far has given me a head start in the creation of my animation. I feel that the game will take a back seat at the current time and I will work on it as and when I feel necessary whilst putting the biggest focus on the animation until it's complete.