Knight Fright

I made this in my 2D Character Animation class. This was a personal project, and I was given the creative freedom to make my animation. I wanted to do an animation that would stay in one perspective and have the narrative occur there. I decided to go with a knight entering a dragon’s den, looking for the promises of wealth within. The animation took about a month to make and I voiced the horse and the knight. The rest of the sounds I got from Pixelbay and YouTube are all copyright-free. I wanted to do a light-hearted animation, and I wanted the intro to show the audience that this animation would not be too serious. This project helped me hone my animation skills. I enjoyed making the designs for the characters and doing the different facial expressions for them. I also enjoyed doing the sound design, having the sounds sync up, and doing the voices for the horse and knight was a blast.

My overall thoughts about this project are that this was a well-done animation. I did a good job storyboarding and with the sound effects. I am very proud of how the horse animation turned out (that took me a bit to get it right) and the dragon. This was my final project for the class, and it was a good marker for how much I had improved about 2D animation over the semester.