Final Animation for Experimental Project

My final animation for this experimental project is made up of natural resources including leaves, flowers, sticks and stones. I think that this animation was successful in general as I was able to use the resources I had to create movement in time with the music. I think that the timing was effective and the materials generally moved at the same time as the beat of the music. Even though there were difficulties with using the daylight as lighting; because it frequently changed, and with using flowers and leaves; which withered after a day or two, I don’t think this was a massive issue. I used the flower pattern from the first test as inspiration for this animation; it gave me the idea of using flowers and spinning them around as this worked successfully in my first test. I also used the bird idea created from using hair grips in my third test as inspiration for the birds, butterfly and dragonfly figures used in my final animation because I like how these travel across the screen with the flapping movement.

Experimental Project Test 3

I used some hair grips for my third experimental test. This was fairly successful as again, I was able to outline many different interesting shapes. I particularly like the part where they look like birds flying across the shot and the spinning pentagon shape that the birds merge into. I think that this test should use less frames per second however, because it seems jumpy and not very smooth. There were also parts of the test where the hair grips didn’t work too well with creating shapes and looked a bit messy or disorganised.

Experimental Project Test 2

For my second experimental test, I used push pins. This wasn't overly successful because I only had a limited amount of different pins and so it was difficult to do very much with them. It was also quite difficult to animate these since the pin board was hard and so it wasn't very easy to push them in. Additionally, they left holes in the pin board which can be seen throughout the test. If I had explored this method further, I may have been able to find some different push pins and perhaps found a good technique to use. Nevertheless, I didn't use any techniques from this test in my final animation.

Experimental Project Test 1

Our experimental project brief was to create three test animations and one final 1 minute long animation using whatever materials we liked, provided we didn't use computer software. 

For my first experimental test, I used marbles to build shapes and patterns. A disadvantage of using marbles is that the light easily reflected off of them. As well as this, they took a long time to animate as each individual marble needed to be moved separately. However, I think that this test was successful since the marbles could potentially be an outline for many different shapes. I especially liked when they were arranged into flower shapes, all turning around. I think that this part of the animation looked effective and in my opinion, making patterns worked better than trying to make a scene (such as the rocket that I created out of marbles).

Stop Motion - Climbing Over a Wall

Here is a stop motion animation of a wall climb that I animated using puppets. I am happy with this, although the camera quality isn't great. I like the way that the legs dangle and shake when one puppet is being pulled up by the other.

Title Sequence Colour Testing

For our group project, creating a Title Sequence animation (for Paradise Lost in Cyberspace), I tested some colours for backgrounds and character designs so that our group could agree on a colour scheme. As a group, we decided on the darker background as our animation will be set in the night and possibly the brighter character colours so that they stand out above the background. This decision could however change later on in the process.

Title Sequence Research and Designs

Here is some of the research that I made for our Title Sequence project, looking at the radio show 'Paradise Lost in Cyberspace'.

These are some designs for our project. The first is a background idea based on futurism which we were looking at in our research. The others are ideas for the end of the animation; where the title itself will be shown.

This is the idea that our group decided on for the ending of our Title Sequence animation.

Here are some typography ideas that I sketched for the animation; we are still deciding on which one to use. 

Stop Motion Lip Sync

 

This is a stop motion animation that I created using puppets and  modelling clay. The brief was to create a lip sync where a face looked as though it was saying the recorded words. We also needed to make one puppet look as though it was saying the words and the other to show a reaction. My animation was fairly successful since I fit the brief; the quality of the images wasn't great however and my modelling skills are very limited.