1. All Dancing
2. Passing Judgement
3. The Split
4. The Spin
5. Fallen to the Ground
6. Melting
7. Oh No
Monday, 11 April 2011
Story
After listening to my track multiple times, I have decided to use the last 30 seconds of the song. The reason for this is because I like it where it comes to a climax then the track suddenly ends.
I have created four ice characters, three dressed in tribal clothing and one dressed as John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever. All the ice creams dressed in tribal clothing are dancing in a traditional tribal manner and the John Travolta one is randomly dancing in a very energetic fashion. Then the other ice screams look at him and glare. Then there is a close up of the John Travolta ice cream dancing, he then spins, hits the ground and starts to melt away. Then it cuts to the rest of ice creams facial expressions where they are all shocked.
I have created four ice characters, three dressed in tribal clothing and one dressed as John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever. All the ice creams dressed in tribal clothing are dancing in a traditional tribal manner and the John Travolta one is randomly dancing in a very energetic fashion. Then the other ice screams look at him and glare. Then there is a close up of the John Travolta ice cream dancing, he then spins, hits the ground and starts to melt away. Then it cuts to the rest of ice creams facial expressions where they are all shocked.
John Travolta Dance
I have decided that I want one of my ice creams to dance like this:
Whilst the other ice creams are doing a traditional tribal dance like this:
Whilst the other ice creams are doing a traditional tribal dance like this:
Stop Motion Animation Research
These are my favourite stop motion videos that I have found on youtube. Hopefully I will draw inspiration from these to help me create a final animation.
Rayograms
These are some rayograms that I have produced during my darkroom sessions. I believe that these are very successful and I might consider to use this technique for my final animation.
My First Stop Motion Animation
Today I had my first stop motion animation lesson, this was a workshop where we got familiar with the equipment to create stop motion videos and hopefully have enough time to create a stop motion too. We were given some toys, a camera and a mac to create our animation.
Here is the end result of my groups work and for our first time we thought it was very successful, given the amount of time we had.
Here is the end result of my groups work and for our first time we thought it was very successful, given the amount of time we had.
Simple Shaped Characters/First Cell Animation
In our first workshop we told create some simple shaped characters, then our next task was to create a 36 frame animation with a partner and to create a simple story with the two characters that we have made.
These are my simple shaped character design.
This is my final character design.
This is the storyboard with our key frames.
Once we created all the cells for the animation, I went onto after effects to piece the animation together and this is the end result.
These are my simple shaped character design.
This is my final character design.
This is the storyboard with our key frames.
Once we created all the cells for the animation, I went onto after effects to piece the animation together and this is the end result.
Types of Animation
Thaumatrope
A thaumatrope is a toy that was popular in Victorian times. A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to combine into a single image due to persistence of vision.
The invention of the thaumatrope is usually credited to either John Ayrton Paris or Peter Mark Roget. Paris used one to demonstrate persistence of vision to the Royal College of Physicians in London in 1824.
Thaumatropes were one of a number of simple, mechanical optical toys that used persistence of vision. They are recognised as important antecedents of cinematography and in particular of animation.
Thaumatropes were one of a number of simple, mechanical optical toys that used persistence of vision. They are recognised as important antecedents of cinematography and in particular of animation.
Zoetrope
A zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures. It consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. Beneath the slits on the inner surface of the cylinder is a band which has either individual frames from a video/film or images from a set of sequenced drawings or photographs. As the cylinder spins the user looks through the slits at the pictures on the opposite side of the cylinder's interior. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together so that the user sees a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, the equivalent of a motion picture. Cylindrical zoetropes have the property of causing the images to appear thinner than their actual sizes when viewed in motion through the slits.
A zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures. It consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. Beneath the slits on the inner surface of the cylinder is a band which has either individual frames from a video/film or images from a set of sequenced drawings or photographs. As the cylinder spins the user looks through the slits at the pictures on the opposite side of the cylinder's interior. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together so that the user sees a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, the equivalent of a motion picture. Cylindrical zoetropes have the property of causing the images to appear thinner than their actual sizes when viewed in motion through the slits.
CEL ANIMATION
The cel is an important innovation to traditional animation, as it allows some parts of each frame to be repeated from frame to frame, thus saving labor. A simple example would be a scene with two characters on screen, one of which is talking and the other standing silently. Since the latter character is not moving, it can be displayed in this scene using only one drawing, on one cel, while multiple drawings on multiple cels will be used to animate the speaking character.
STOP MOTION
Stop motion (also known as stop action) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Motion animation using clay is called clay animation or clay-mation.
STOP MOTION
Stop motion (also known as stop action) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Motion animation using clay is called clay animation or clay-mation.
Three Words
These are the three words that I associate with the piece of music that I was given:
- Colourful
- Energetic
- Eccentric
Print to Pixel - Brief
Aims
- Creatively apply the use of mixed media to a design problem.
- Demonstrate a creative approach to the design process/solution.
- Apply appropriate basic technical skills to a design solution.
- Use time based design to animate imagery.
- Apply an experimental approach to problem solving.
- Work safely within a workshop environment.
The brief is to create a 20 -30 second animation to go with a selected piece of music. The project will be assessed in two parts, a storyboard that will be presented and the second part which is the process, outcome and presentation.
The piece of music that i have been given to animate is - Tribal by Gustavo Santaolalla
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