Today in class we started working on our new concept we starting working on in Thursday's class – we're feeling good about this one, it's a lot more straightforward, visually interesting and tells the meaning behind the story better. Our old animation felt very flat and a lot like a stage with no moving camera angles – and it was looking like it was going to be very long, much longer than we would've liked. We decided to pair it back and it a lot more visually interesting – so that we could use it as an advertisement for social media.

Over the weekend louie worked on creating textures and colours while I worked on figuring out the workflow for how we'll make the animation going forward.

I assumed we'd be using adobe animate, which is like the modern version of flash which was great for frame-by-frame animation back in the day. In class I asked some other friends who are doing similar styles & workflows to us what they're using – one team was using photoshop and another using an iPad app. Since I've got an iPad I decided the workflow would be easier to do there.

We also leant into the hand drawn style that we were using for wireframes on the iPad because people told us they loved the look of them – so louie tried different colour variations and we ended up really liking the yellow background version shown here