Although I didn’t want to focus on anything but the actions of drinking coffee, reading, and smoking, I wanted to add a little more to the animation, so that I was extending the focal point to more than just the main subject. I didn’t have the time to draw the entire frame with the background involved but decided I could use parts of it. Despite the fact the flowers were tightly adjusted to the window sill and therefore very still, I was able to make them look as though they are moving. I enjoyed being able to experiment with animating like this and generally turn still images into a moving animation. By adding a little more detail over each layer, the flowers are suddenly growing and expanding, which makes the animation much more engaging.

When I started on my animation I was only really thinking about getting the hang of drawing over my footage. I hadn’t really considered any background colour yet. This left me with an issue once I had 24 frames with the wrong background colour. Once you start drawing on a layer, you can’t simply select the background, as it all turns into one layer. Initially, I was thinking of either redoing these layers or just leaving them out, but I didn’t have the time for it. Instead, I could fill in the areas. Unfortunately, filling in the spaces would make the lines appear thinner, or there were gaps that were too small to fill or would instead make my line disappear. After contemplating it, I did actually start liking the few white areas, even though they were different from the other frames, but gave the animation overall a little more depth and interest. 

I had also been working on some of the frames on a university computer instead of my laptop. I didn’t realise until I put some of the frames together that the lines I had drawn were much thicker compared to the ones I had created on my laptop. It must have just been a setting that was changed on the university computer, but again, I thought I had to cut these out of my whole animation because I wasn’t aware you were able to change the settings once the lines had already been drawn. Fortunately, I showed this part of the animation in one of the group critiques we had, and with the help of others was able to sort out my issue.