Mentor Review Round 2 (Part 2)

We returned to Andy DiLallo for further guidance on our visual assets. He was impressed with the updated animation style, which involves scenes of cascading hills that are given texture with overlayed photographs of actual class notes. Videos of the animations captured in the Black Box Studio assured him that our “world-building” was effective. We showed Andy an animated scene with a plant growing and clouds traveling across the sky above the hills and he suggested that we remove the clouds from the scene. He explained that the focus in this scene was unclear, as the clouds drew the eyes away from the actual result of the user interaction (the plant growing). Furthermore, because the images are mostly 2-dimensional, empty space above the hills would actually enhance the sense of depth in the scene. Andy also shared with us a useful technique for adjusting the hue of the animation so that it could be multicolored, rather than just varying shades of green. We plan to employ this technique in our final rendering of the animations.