Character Animation

First, I started with simple thumbnails to come up with a suitable idea for this project. Once I finalized my idea, I further developed it in more thumbnails, figuring out the actions of characters and also the composition of the shots. After finishing all the planning for the animation I began with setting up the scenes in various places where I planned to shot my animation. Then I grabbed my camera and started shooting pictures of each and every pose. After I was done with all the shots I ended up with more 700 shots for the entire animation. I was shocked myself. I ended up selecting around 400-500 shots that I decided to use in the animation. I took those pictures into Photoshop to edit myself out of those pictures and other utensils I used to animate the characters. Took me more than I anticipated. When I was finally done with Photoshop I took all the required pictures to Windows Movie Maker and started putting together the animation. I started with tweeking the timing of every motion and when I was happy with the overall timing, I started polishing my animation. And finally I added text for title and credits and then I was done. I hope it turned out fine.