3D Gif - TOAST

This gif was the most challenging in the sense that I'm quite sure my brain almost entirely stopped functioning while I was making it. Turns out my own laptops version of Photoshop doesn't work with video files, and since I'd already filmed everything I needed for this gif, I had to break the video file down into still frames and then transfer those jpegs into photoshop and play them in sequence, all 140 odd of them. This task and brief as a whole has given me a massive respect for animation as a craft and animators in general, as it takes a lot of patience and skill to be able to make something that runs for even a couple of seconds, let alone a few minutes or hours. This one genuinely nearly pushed me over the edge into the void.

Keeping with the theme of giving life to plain inanimate objects, this time I chose toast to give a personality to. I thought about a couple of ways to bring it to life such as two pieces that were in love, but I couldn't really think of a good way for that to loop properly for the gif. I'm quite happy with the idea that the act of being toasted brings the bread to life, as it can be looped to suggest lots of slices are being toasted/Frankensteined to life. I found this gif the hardest to think of a good idea for so in the future I'd try to invest an equal amount of time into each of the three as I feel I spent quite a while on my analogue and digital frames and animations and could have used that time to make this 3D one stronger. 

This gif also has a noticeable shift in the middle where you can tell where I stopped the camera, but I didn't notice that until I was halfway through editing the frames back together, so that is definitely something I'd take care to look out for in the future, as I feel the flow of the animation would run a lot better without that jerk between the frames in the middle. I am however happy with the way the face reveals itself as it seems natural and playful, which is the tone I was aiming for with this one. I also nearly burned the tape with the face on inside the toaster for a couple of seconds because I'm an idiot and animation is real tiring.