Hello!
For my interactive animation I wanted to have crisp, easy-to-understand animations with cute little bits of sound to make the experience pop. I took a picture of my shelf of glass ornaments to animate. I love glass items and it felt like an appropriate choice, as glass objects always felt to me like they had a mysterious magical quality to them. I also see this shelf every day while I work in my room.
It was hard to choose what to animate, but in the end I chose the amethyst tree, faux diamond, marble jar, potion bottle, and glass dolphin. I used tweening to make animations fade in and out and hand drawn frames to do the majority of animation. For the amethyst tree, I used tweening to give the illusion of leaves falling.
The sounds are open-source from Freesound.org.
All in all, I really enjoyed this project, in part because this is my simplest Max Patch so far!
The sounds match the animations really well!
Objects are nicely choosen and their features are unveiled in a proper way, the scene would be more “shinning” if there is a projection light and would be more mysterious with an ocean bgm.
I love the selection of whimsical objects and sounds – it reminds me of a visual I Spy book.
The timing of the object falling and the sound that went with it was spot on, the animation made it seem like it was a marble falling on glass. I like the selection of sounds, it fits well with all the glass and stone objects.
The sounds fit well with the animations, and I think that some of the animations would benefit from staying on screen just a bit longer.