The animation was meant to emulate old detective films and surprise viewers with humor. It featured a mysterious character revealed to be a dog putting on glasses. While not as polished as professional animations with full production teams, the author was pleased with the smooth parallax scrolling effects achieved in After Effects. Considerable time was spent on coloring assets in Photoshop and assembling the final project in Final Cut Pro.

1. Animation evaluation
I think the animation was smooth all together, the parallax scrolling was easy to do and smooth, I
wanted to put in legs for the walk cycle, but the legs would of looked weird with the coat not
moving, so I decided to show the waist down.
I wanted to go for an old fashioned detective movie where it’s black and white; the genre’s called
“Noir”, and so the script was based on a things that a detective would say, the character was meant
to look and sound mysterious, making the viewer think it’s a serious animation, then hit them with
the reveal of him, then make it funnier with the sudden music change and colour.
Compared to professional animation, it’s not as organic as the characters shown in cartoons like
Ren&Stimpy, Courage the cowardly dog, etc. They have a group of people to work on an episode,
better recording equipment and experience in doing animation.
Making the animation mysterious, by hiding the characters face, and the audio to make them
wonder what’ll happen next, then revealing that he is a dog putting on flashing glasses, and a scene
where he’s fighting a monster.
I spent a lot of time on Photoshop, getting the backgrounds, character parts and extras coloured up
and ready to animate in after effects. In after effects I made the two parallax scrolling effects for the
animation, the character moving, the phone ringing, and the gun bit at the end of the animation. I
got most of the audio from the website, Incompetech, and the voice over from a microphone. After
rendering the movie and getting the audio together, I assembled it together on Finalcut, putting the
voice over in the best places, and the animation bits in the order I wanted it to be, adding the credits
at the end and the title at the beginning.