animation experiments

My backwards experiments.

Before i started my final animation i wanted to test out one technique which i would use in my advert.

This technique i wanted to test out is the backwards section. This part of the advert i wanted to rewind the frames at the end of the advert to know the viewers watching that this type of smoothie was made from real fruit. Nothing was added to it in the process so its healthy and natural. 

How i created this technique was to take photos in different stages for example the first tester i did was the white board. For this tester i had drawn out a picture which i then rubbed off. I took the photos from this and then added them to iMovie. I added them in order and after that i knew what photos went where. After i did that i put the photos backwards and then played it to a peer, this was a simple and effect way of the effect 'Rewind'  So when i played it back it looked like i was rubbing the picture on the white board. 

After i played the tester back and saw that it actually worked really well, i wanted to test different objects and different excises to do for example the 2nd one i tried was eating chips. It didn't really work that well it just looked like i was chewing and then taking the chips out of my month. 

My 3rd tester was the best one i created it. i thought it was really clever and effective. 

How i created this tester was to write a message on a bit of paper and screw it up. And put the paper in my mouth and chew. When i added it to i movie and changed the photos around it looked like i was re-chewing the paper taking it out of my mouth and showing the message to the camera. 

My 4th and last tester was with paint. I took a few photos of me squeezing paint on it a glass pad trying to make a smiley face. But when i changed it on i movie it looked like the paint want being sucked up from the glass pad in to the paint bottle. this tester actually looked really effective and i really liked the way it looked. 

These testers really helped me gain and improve my knowledge of i movie and the 'rewind' effect and how i would put it all together for my advert. If i didn't test this technique out before my final project i think i would of struggled a lot and would of made me stressed out even more because i wouldn't of known how it worked and wouldn't of had a lot of time to try it out. 

What equipment do you need for your final animation?

What equipment do you need for your final animation?

iphone 5

clay 

 fruit

food blender 

ipad 

computer imove 

text

background music

captions 

music in the frames (clapping)

chopping borad

bowl

knife, spoon and folk 

a model 

glasses and straws 

jug

old remote

table cloth

project review

Project Review

2. Use Of Materials 

Project Review

• What materials/techniques have you experimented with during this project?
• adore programes, drawings, ipads,imovie, iphoto, iphone and hd programes,clay motion.

• What skills have you developed during this project?
• how to create animated Gif,food imotion, observational drawing imotion, time lapse animation, stop motion, stop nation music video, shape tween and flash. 

• Discuss your use of materials/techniques - explain what you did, what went well, etc.
• with the Gif it was loads of photos looped to make it move, I really liked using gif and it was a quick but cool animation. The food/observational drawings was alright to do, i don't really like to draw but i found it quit fun to use different pens and watch yourself draw. The stopmation was kind of like a gif but you can add music,text, effects and backgrounds to it. With the shape tween you can to draw a shape in the flash program and make it move/change into different colours and add a face to make it change to different face. And with flash you had to make a person add all the detail in for example the eyes,ears,nose and mouth. 

• Did you experience any problems with the materials/techniques? What were they? How did you overcome them?
• Yes the flash program was the hardest to use and you had to follow a video setup to show how to work it but it was hard to understand and with out someone to actually show you, It was hard to picture and also know was tools to use and what the tools look like. I overcome this problem by asking a class member to help me. 

• You have experimented with a range of different techniques (animated gif, stop-motion, time lapse, claymation, flash) Discuss your use of each and explain which is your preference and why. 
• The techniques i preference was the claymation and the stopmation simply because i like how you can do any ideas you like and put you're own stamp on it. With the clay you can make it look the way you want it to look like. Also i thought they were easier and more effective out of all of them. As you could add music to them in iMovie and also add text and different effects/backgrounds.  

Bob Marley 3 little birds music animation

This is my clay animation

The song i used was Bob Marley 3 little birds 

i used the stop motion technique.

Taking a photo of every movement, to make the clay model walk and move he's feet.

Also in the background the birds fly in the tree.

 I really like this video but i think it could be longer then just 27 seconds.

  The reason I picked  this music/song is because I wanted something tropical and jazzy. I wanted a song that would go with my story line really well. I also wanted to make a man playing a guitar.

How I managed to make this music video is very simple. I first made a background for the music video I made a house and a sun. Then added a clay tree which I made out of tree and brown clay. Using a nail tool to add texture to the top part of the tree. After I made the three birds using orange and blue clay. I used these two colours  because I thought it was eye catching and people would notice them more in the background. After I made the birds I went on to make the two people, I used bright colours for the main person as I wanted him to stand out more. I made the other man with more normal looking colours to make him look like he is wearing clothes. So he would fade into the background so you wouldn't notice him as much. Through out the video I made him move his legs and clapping his hands. The other man who is purple is walking around while he is playing the guitar. And the birds are flying into the tree.