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So the basic premise for this one was “I have one hour, make an animation under 30 seconds.” It was a little more generous than that, and I wasn’t actually timing myself or anything, but I do think I was reasonably close to the one hour mark for this animation.

I was just thinking about how sometimes still pictures can be better than animations because they show the shrinking, what you’re here to see, more quickly and easily. So I wondered if I made a short animation that got to the point super quickly, could I achieve the same effect?

In the end, I don’t think I was able to accomplish that allure of still pictures, but I’m still quite happy with the final product for this. It’s clearly very uninspired, and doesn’t have a whole lot going on, but the shrinking looks nice, and it’s short and to the point. It doesn’t have a lot of the fun intro stuff or more in depth actions that I usually try to include, but the fact that I was able to create this so quickly is still pretty cool.

The 30 second time limit was surprisingly tough to work around though. You can see stuff like the camera angles get to be a bit quick near the end as a result. Of course I could have given myself more frames to work with, but I wanted to keep to the original challenge.

Now, you might be wondering, “if it was so hard to work around being only 30 seconds long, didn’t you have an extra 10 seconds to work with because this is only 20 seconds?” Yeah, for some reason I thought that 30 frames times 30 seconds was 600 frames for a brief moment, and I guess I just never questioned it. I only realized that my math was wrong after I fully completed it and rendered it, so, oops.

Looking back at it now, there’s a lot that I could have done to make this better (adjusting poses and whatnot), but for only an hour or so, I think I did a decent job. I’m actually considering making more in this style, as it doesn’t take very much time/effort, and lets me make a lot of content really quickly. Let me know if you’d be okay with this, or if you’d prefer I made traditional length animations.

Description

So the basic premise for this one was “I have one hour, make an animation under 30 seconds.” It was a little more generous than that, and I wasn’t actually timing myself or anything, but I do think I was reasonably close to the one hour mark for this animation.

I was just thinking about how sometimes still pictures can be better than animations because they show the shrinking, what you’re here to see, more quickly and easily. So I wondered if I made a short animation that got to the point super quickly, could I achieve the same effect?

In the end, I don’t think I was able to accomplish that allure of still pictures, but I’m still quite happy with the final product for this. It’s clearly very uninspired, and doesn’t have a whole lot going on, but the shrinking looks nice, and it’s short and to the point. It doesn’t have a lot of the fun intro stuff or more in depth actions that I usually try to include, but the fact that I was able to create this so quickly is still pretty cool.

The 30 second time limit was surprisingly tough to work around though. You can see stuff like the camera angles get to be a bit quick near the end as a result. Of course I could have given myself more frames to work with, but I wanted to keep to the original challenge.

Now, you might be wondering, “if it was so hard to work around being only 30 seconds long, didn’t you have an extra 10 seconds to work with because this is only 20 seconds?” Yeah, for some reason I thought that 30 frames times 30 seconds was 600 frames for a brief moment, and I guess I just never questioned it. I only realized that my math was wrong after I fully completed it and rendered it, so, oops.

Looking back at it now, there’s a lot that I could have done to make this better (adjusting poses and whatnot), but for only an hour or so, I think I did a decent job. I’m actually considering making more in this style, as it doesn’t take very much time/effort, and lets me make a lot of content really quickly. Let me know if you’d be okay with this, or if you’d prefer I made traditional length animations.