For our project, we were to make a short film about technology and social media. We decided to make a short animation depicting the effects of social media and technology on our generation, and how social media has negatively influenced how we live in this world.

We formed our idea when discussing the prompt. We brainstormed about the negative side of social media and technology and came up with the idea of the illusion of friendship caused by technology. We wanted to make the story relatable, hence the setting and protagonist. Alas, we created the scene at Wendell’s Birthday party.

After coming up with a basic idea of what we wanted to animate, we started sketching our storyboard. Here you can see how each one of us was given a certain section of the animation, that we were asked to draw scene by scene. Storyboarding played a pretty important part in the making of our animation because when it came to actually drawing the animation on Adobe Animate, I just had to recreate these four slides.

Character design is a really big part of an animation, and so we put a lot of thought into the construction of our little character, Wendell. We first sketched what our main character would look like from top view, side view, and perspective view. We also focused a lot on the color of the character, and how each color conveys a different emotion that the character might be feeling, for instance, in the first two scenes Wendell is yellow; a happy color, but in the last scene Wendell is blue; a sad color. And lastly, before creating our character in Adobe Animate we constructed our figure out of playdough, to play with the depth and height of our character.

For our animation, we used Animate CC. Backgrounds helped us set the scene and made it easier to understand the story. We also decided on a color pallet if red, blue, and yellow, as our main colors. In the fake party scene, Wendell's shirt was yellow and his pants were blue. He had a yellow shirt because he was happy. In the scene in real life, he has a blue shirt to symbolize his sadness. In the scene in real life, We finalized our project by putting all the clips together in Premiere Pro CC.

We also did our sound in Premiere. Sound design helped make it clear where the scene was, and the mood of the scene. We first thought of all the sounds that would be necessary than we looked for them online. We used sound effects and music. We put the sounds in time with the animation in Premiere.