This is my finished animation of the journey for the two little paper dolls.
For this video animation tester, the class had to come up with a storyline from an inspring video.
The video that inspired me was the "Dot"animation This animation used small objects which looked really effective. So i decided to use this technique for my animation. The song I used for "the show" by lenka The story line to my animation was that i created two paper dolls, that ran away together.. To go on a journey and have to face these different obstacle course, Which were classroom objects such as. paint brushes and paint, climbing tower of books, going down rope and jumping over paint brushes and by the end they get killed by my hand. By using small classroom objects i hope that in someways the animation "Dot" really helped me come up with my animation idea.
Theme:Food Product: Fruit/smoothies Target Audience:Children 3-16 years of age.
For my final Animation project i have chosen the theme: food.
For this theme the product i want to try and sell is fruit/smoothies. My target audience is children aged 3 to 16 but really i am aiming it at the younger children.
The Reason why i have chosen fruit/smoothies is because i wanted a fun way for children to eat healthy and to make better decisions towards healthy veg and fruit.
I will be trying to sell this product within an 'advert' using animation techniques.
I have a few ideas for my final project. One is that i'm actually being filmed or someone else is being filmed chopping up different colourful fruit and making the smoothie then drinking it. After they are finished i will then rewind it so you see the film backwards so it looks like the smoothie is turning in to fruit which i think will look really cool.
The other idea i have is that i could using stop motion animation to film the fruit walking towards a chopping broad getting ready to be made into a smoothie. They could be chopping up the dropped in to the blender and after be put in a mixing bowl to which you would see a hand adding the juice to give to come one to drink.
I think both ideas and i think both would work really well. I will have to try and see which one would look more good and effective.
I have selected Marple college stop-motion test, sorry i'm late and Death cab for cutie
What is inspiring about it?
I thought all was inspiring because of many different reason for Marple college i like how they went in and out of the different college apartments and how he got he's friend to join him in the video.
I like how sorry i'm late was shot from a high angle and that some one was actually holding props in front of the camera instead of it being on the floor. So it make it look massive but in actual fact it wasn't.
And i also like how Death can for cutie uses the music to base there video on, Just using song lyrcis and using different ways of writing them for example. Using the sand on the beach and using a frying pan to cook out and word.
What type of animation is it?
Marple college and Sorry i'm late are both stop motion. Which is when you take a photo move a little and take another so when you have about 15-30 shots you can make to seem like the person or objects are moving.
With Death cab for cutie they also you stop motion but instead of using person they use some objects and type.
What sort of props/techniques have been used?
For Marple college they used a camera not on a stand and put it in Photoshop By not using a stand for the camera you can see in the video the camera moving around which is a bit off putting also they should of changed the light setting on the camera or in photo shop in some frames as when we were traveling about the college some shot went from really light to also black.
For Sorry i'm late like i said before they used an over head angle looking down on the person/ object. Then used quit big props for the person to sit and stand on. But they also used a technique which looked really effective Were they put a blue paper in front of the camera so it looked like the person was under the sea and also holding objects so it looked like they were the actual size of the person when we was not.
For death cab for cutie they used Photoshop to add in text and fading in about out effects but they also used stop motion just taking pictures when we are writing the lyrics out.
What could you try in your own work that is inspired by this?
I Think i could try all these techniques in my own work as they are all really good and effective.
The one i was most inspired by was the Death can for cutie, I just liked the same the pictures which with the video and song lyrics and how fun and creative it all looked and i was think it wouldn't be to hard to do to but also will look really strong light and effective.
My time lapse animation using my drawings of food.
This animation was really easy and effective to use. All i had to do was download imotion on to my phone and take a few photos which was set at 0.1 seconds and drawing my chosen food. Which i choose what a ' Go head yogurt bar' it took a few seconds to film and looks really effective . I liked doing the animation drawings because it was so quick and also you can experiment with all types of pens. pencils and fine liners.
After i had made my video i uploaded it to youtube so i could upload it to my blogger.
This is my imotion animation which is all about food!
I decided first of all to make a animation on how to make tea but i didn't work out very well and the position kept changing and you couldn't see what was going on inside the cup.
So that i had a thought about how making bread into toast.
I planned it out a bit better then the cup of tea. I made sure my phone stand in the same place as it started off like. then I was a little longer filming then it was with the drawing because i had to pause the film alot of the time to make sure you could see the journey of the bread turning in to toast and to make sure i had to the best angle to watch it from.
This imotion took about 15 frames on about 5 seconds just so i could make sure i had time to go in and out of the shot to move the bread to make it travel.
Over all i enjoyed working with imotion and i think my bread turning into toast looks really good.
the only thing i would change about it if maybe i could add music to it.
One of their biggest successes to date is for Nokia with the films 'Dot' and ‘Gulp’. The spots went on to win Guinness World Records for the smallest stop-motion character in a film and largest animation set respectively.
The artistes are called Will Studd and Ed Patterson, They are an award winning directness who specialising in different forms of animation. Together they are Sumo Science, their aim is to create a
fresh mix of styles using elements of stop-motion, puppetry, 2D and live-action.
Using little tiny objects helps them show how tiny they are actually working. for example using pennies and tiny pins to walk over.
And all this was filmed on a phone nokia N8 using cellscope technology.
CellScope, which is a Nokia device with a microscope attachment, was the inspiration for a teeny-tiny film created by Sumo Science . It stars a 9mm girl called Dot as she struggles through a microscopic world. All the minuscule detail was shot using CellScope technology and a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics.
If i was to do a stop motion i would like to do my like 'dot' I am thinking on using college equipment such as paint brushes, pencils, books, paper etc.
i'm going to base my on 'dot' but change it in many ways. First of all there is only one 'dot' and i am going to use two paper dolls which are flat 2-d shapes not 3-d. In the stop motion 'dot' is running away and so will my paper dolls they will be running away from me and i created them in the first place. They will also come around objects in there way which they have to over come. So in many ways i was inspired by 'dot' the stop motion.
Gulp: The world's largest stop-motion animation
'Gulp' is a short film created by Sumo Science at Aardman, depicting a fisherman going about his daily catch. Shot on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales, every frame of this stop-motion animation was shot using a Nokia N8, also like the stop motion 'Dot'. The film has broken a world record for the 'largest stop-motion animation set', with the largest scene stretching over 11,000 square feet.
I like how these two videos are about size and content. I like how they have to do they stop motion really small or extra big.
How this sort of video i would have to find a large arena which i could shot my stop motion. I would have to use big props instead of little tiny ones like 'Dot' just to show big scale the stop motion is in fact.
I like both videos very much but i would have to say 'Dot' is the one i was more inspired by and would love to use the small method the best and it would be great on. What objects i could use.
i created my gif my using a shot of each pose which was between 10 to 30 photos. then i went on Photoshop and add them in order of how i wanted them. then i had to open up the animation box which would show me all the different frames. Then i had to duplicate the layers which doesn't take too long and i had to keep doing that to all of my frames. then you change the time settings to 0.1 seconds and then when i finished doing that i made it on a loop, so it would keep on playing.
How effective is your animation? i.e. does it work well?
I think my GIF worked really well, i like how i'm doing all the tourist would do on holiday.
What could you do to improve your animation? i.e. make it longer / add in some typography / try some different Adobe Photoshop techniques.
I thinking adding speech bubbles above my head to act out what i'm thinking would be good. to show that i'm scared because i saw a lion in the background.
Which artist did you look at for information on this technique?
The artist i looked at what Jamie beck
If you did this again what would you do to improve? Remember, you might decide to do this for your final outcome so this evaluation could be helpful!
If i would do a GIF again i would make an actual background not just use a screen, I also would make props so it would look more effective.
