Animation week 1
We began animation by watching a series of different animations and beginning to consider how characters and stories are structured. Our first activity played around with the idea of metamorphosis, the idea that our character has to go through some sort of change by the end of the story for it to be successful successful story. We had to produce a GIF that shows this. We had half an hour to do this on paper so we drew a series of pictures and assembled them on an app that produces a GIF. Since we only had half an hour to decide on an idea and execute it it wasn't as well executed as we had hoped. Our showed a cactus with a moustache and once it rains it's spires fell off along with it's moustache.
Unfortunately as the wire for my hard drive has broken I am not able to upload it.
We then did an exercise thinking about story world emphasising the idea that in animation you can create anything and it is up to you to create. Our group created a short stop motion using our phones showing a lift that was portal to an alternate dimension and can viewed on the link below. By the end of the first day we had basically learned that our stories should be structured around a character and something they desire that they do not have and that our stories should follow the characters journey to change and grow until they obtain the object of there desires. We then were then set the task of coming up with 10 ideas that followed this structure which we would ultimate pick our favourite from and pitch to our groups to decide on our stories for our final animation. Our group eventually selected an idea about a pair of shoes that lose each other and the quest of one of the shoes to find it's partner.
We were also introduced to animating in photoshop and iStopmotion this week. We were taught to animated our names as if they were being handwritten. Whilst I don't have the file from this I used this technique again on our final animation for the title card.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B10FnKzRYvA-bFRPVUlJUFQ1cmU3clg2dzNGU0JqNE9LUWlJ/view?usp=sharing
Unfortunately as the wire for my hard drive has broken I am not able to upload it.
We then did an exercise thinking about story world emphasising the idea that in animation you can create anything and it is up to you to create. Our group created a short stop motion using our phones showing a lift that was portal to an alternate dimension and can viewed on the link below. By the end of the first day we had basically learned that our stories should be structured around a character and something they desire that they do not have and that our stories should follow the characters journey to change and grow until they obtain the object of there desires. We then were then set the task of coming up with 10 ideas that followed this structure which we would ultimate pick our favourite from and pitch to our groups to decide on our stories for our final animation. Our group eventually selected an idea about a pair of shoes that lose each other and the quest of one of the shoes to find it's partner.
We were also introduced to animating in photoshop and iStopmotion this week. We were taught to animated our names as if they were being handwritten. Whilst I don't have the file from this I used this technique again on our final animation for the title card.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B10FnKzRYvA-bFRPVUlJUFQ1cmU3clg2dzNGU0JqNE9LUWlJ/view?usp=sharing
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