Project 1: Caterpillar vs. Flower

Because the objective of this assignment was to portray weight, the possibilities are endless. I finally decided to animate what I think would be the relationship between a teeny-weeny caterpillar and it's food of choice, flower petals. It became apparent to me very quickly that this would be a longer animation than the ones that I have done in the past because I knew I wanted to  create a slower narrative that drew out the expressions and emotions of the caterpillar throughout its efforts to conquer the flower. At the very beginning, I had to create a sort of walk cycle that the caterpillar would follow to move throughout the frame. I then moved onto the struggle between the caterpillar and the flower, more specifically the caterpillar trying to push the flower down to reach the petals. At the very end, because I was quite exhausted from how much animation I had already done, I decided to show the caterpillar fainting from exhaustion, in defeat. As a video art student, I love to play around with angles and therefore incorporated a couple of panning shots and zoom shots to bring more variety to the piece. Overall, while this assignment was much more arduous and time-consuming than most of the other pieces I've created, I really enjoyed the whole process of it.