Our Animation Story

P1T6 Kiara Receives Party from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

For our animation project, our focus statement was "Kiara Receives Party." This focus statement tells our story because the story is about me leaving my old school and how all of my friends threw me a big surprise party. So in this project, we film a ton of different animation types like stop motion, Styks, and Photoshop. Each scene has a different kind of animation. My whole team worked extremely hard to try and get our story across.

The lesson that this story teaches is that your friends will always come through for you and you shouldn't give up on them. How our project shows this lesson is by showing my friends throwing me the party, giving me a gift (hat), and carrying me to my car when the day is done. This was a little difficult to show at first, but we figured out how to do it in the end. Now with our project, you can see how our story shows this lesson.

We had some ups and downs in our project. Our best moment was probably when we finally reached the minimum time limit of 60 seconds. We were all celebrating when we saw that we had about one minute and three seconds, which sounds kind of ridiculous when I say it. Our worst moment was probably when we had to do a Styks animation in a short period of time, and we were two people short. And added onto that, the two people left either wasn't very experienced in Styks, or was busy with something else. But in the end, we pulled through.