Animation “The girl who cannot lose”

https://app.vyond.com/videos/138e5e1a-b028-4f24-8037-21b6df878997

(If you could not see the video and instead see a log-in page (which I think you will since my free trial with Vyond has ended :P), please log in as followed:

Email: thuanh99@student.fdu.edu

Password: abcABC12345 (and no, it is not the actual password to my email so don’t bother trying :’) )

Here are some main screenshots from the animation:

Following the theme of tennis, I chose to tell the story of Esther Vergeer – a legendary wheelchair tennis player who has been widely called “the most dominant player in professional sports” due to her great dominance in wheelchair tennis world. This animation is a decent narration of Vergeer’s life and career, following the main character when she was a little girl. I tried following the style of dramatic video-making of many great thriller directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, by highlighting the moment of when Vergeer realized that she could not feel anything in her legs, that her life was about to change forever. (The attempt was, obviously, not very great, but I tried ;_:) Overall, I hope that the audience could feel inspired by Vergeer’s story after watching the video.

Something I remember having a lot of trouble with is to be familiar with the tool we were given to work with for this project – Vyond. My theme is tennis, and I guess Vyond just… have not had enough assets for tennis? So I really struggled trying to find replacements for the tennis props in Vyond, but luckily things worked out great!