APD Week2(thumbnail of the second gif animation)

Just wanna put my second looping animation as the gif looping thumbnail here. 

Theme: Time

Method: I used ToonBoom to created two short animations.

Context: I got the inspiration from the scene that the phoenix in Harry Potter, burned and reborn from the ashes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgDZBqTuUuE

The plants look like they are shaking their head which is fun to see.

Response: I refined the 'time' into a smaller scope which is the looping of life cycles. I first came up with the scene in Harry Potter which is the phoenix reborn. So I created a looping of phoenix  Then I thought of plants can also sort of revive after winter. When the recording of plants growing speeded up, it looks like they are shaking their head which is funny. Therefore, I came out with the idea that the tree shakes off its brown leaves and in order to grow new leaves.

Reflection: It was a good chance to study the movement of a tree shaking and animating fire. A tree won't be able to shake by itself and the movement is different when it's shaking with the wind, so I observed the movement of shaking tree branches. And I did research on Japanese animations of how they animate the fire, I typically looked at the animation Fire Force, they have done a very nice work of animating fire.