New Animation.....again!

Yet again things are very different to last time I posted. Things were getting a little complicated working with a partner so Sam and I decided that it would be best to work on our own projects. My NEW (yes that's right another new concept) is going to be about a fussy wooden statue who gets board of standing there while someone draws him so he decides to go off and explore around! I am going to have to do a lot of work at home to get this finished on time .. so im going to start story boarding now bye!

Current Progress for the Animation

Well... a lot has changed since last time I posted,
I have an entirely new concept for my animation. instead of the simple stop motion I am going to use fabric to create things, similar to the target under the apple tree commercial. I am also working with samantha flately. Some issues that we have encounter is that we are having trouble being able to find a camera that is high enough to get an shot in. We need to go out and buy some fabric in order to start creating the actual animation. My planning is coming along well and i am about to start my 3rd storyboard because the ideas keep changing!

Bruce Bickford

Born in Seattle in 1947 is an animator working primarily in Clay animation. His concepts were very controversial and often surreal. His first movie was in 1964/65 and it was a 10minute short of animated cars.

Reflection so far...

So far this term I have started experimenting with animation-ish and iStop Motion and have started creating my short movie. My short movie is about a young girl who is sad in a black and white world and when a butterfly flyes past and brings color with it she becomes happy. It's a very basic storyline so I am relying more on my actual animation to bring the story to life. To create my movie I am going to use iStop Motion and Photoshop. I am going to make the whole thing black and white and obviously add the color when the happiness comes into her life .. i.e the butterfly. I am going to re-do the storyboard after re-thinking my idea.

Creative Media Assignment

A little bit of Happiness – Creative Media Animation Project Term 2, 2011

The idea of the animation is that there is this bright colourful happy girl living in a dull, colourless world. Then she starts to touch things and they turn into colour. After awhile a butterfly flies past and brings all the colours with it. To do this i am going to use the iStop Motion software and Photoshop

PLOT

1. Girl is sitting on bench sad in a black and white world

2. She stands up and smells a flower.. the flower becomes colourful

3. She turns more things colourful

4. A butterfly flies past and makes the whole world colourful

Me and Sams iStop Motion

This iStop motion took us about 5 minutes and was just playing with the iStop motion software its two blobs :D


This is the first iStop motion that we have made and we will (hopefully) get better !

Animation-ish

So after a long holiday in America i am now in Animation class.. america to animation .. its a harsh reality.. So becuase of this I am 2 weeks behind so I have only just started on animation, So far I have only done the red ball and the walking cycle. Next week we start on iStop Motion, so I am looking foward to that.