Animation was kinda fun, I like being able to bring objects or people to life. Really I just liked to draw the picture then animate it after. Using fireworks was a pain though, it didn't seem to be working for half of the class. , Mine seemed to work fine but I didn't know how to get anything to work.
A storyboard's really important to keep track of you progress and see what to do next and plan ahead. To create an animation you need to have an idea what you want it to look like and plan its movements carefully to have it run smoothly and not be jumping for one spot to the next. We didn't do a claymation... but I have done one before about the smurfs... it was pretty fun. It's basically stopmotion using clay. Our stopmotion involved a paper air plane flying around the school, at the end the plane crashed into a sign the said to drive safe.
A gif I made of a witch flying in a circle on a broom.
The very first gif I made in this course using flipanim.com.