My Group Project

I’m in a group project called ‘Bringing to life’ with Tracey, Joe and Dmitri. We are creating an adaptation of a story “Kapp’s Last Tape”.

We talked about who was working on what. Joe and Dmitri worked on shooting / stop motion and Tracey and I worked on Flash.

I think it went well because we talked and gave our ideas to each other. We discussed what we were supposed to do with our work and it took a few days for us to decide.

Some days we were not able to work together because of sickness, long journeys and other problems.

Line of Action - Animation

During the summer holidays my project was “A Line of Action” - drawing a line of someone throwing a ball that showed movement. I experimented with cricket and tennis but decided to use cricket for my project. I used a drawing tablet and Photoshop to draw the line with different coloured skeletons because it made it simpler to see the black line showing the movement.

オオカミとブタ。Stop motion with Wolf and Pig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmkLlVzUBn4

Ani Maidstone Trailer

My idea for the Ani Maidstone trailer is to have an artificial jungle invading the college. I’ve watched a DVD “One Dot Zero” ,“Tyger” by Guilherme Marcondes as my inspiration. “Taiga” is a trailer concerning a tiger that was walking around the city turning it into an artificial jungle and turning people into animals.

I’ve been researching using the Internet, DVD and Library books. I’ve taken pictures of areas inside and outside the college, I have loaded these pictures into my computer and printed them I have also done experimental drawings. The photographs from my camera were not used because of the poor quality. I used pictures from another camera which was of a better quality I drew a storyboard of what my animation would look like. I realized I made a long storyboard which would have used too much time to animate therefore I decided to make a shorter and simpler one from start to finish.

This is a video preview of the UCA logo. It appears in the form of mixed materials as modeling clay and cut outs.

My Final Animation- The Naming Game

Last year I was working on an animation project called ‘The Naming Game’. It’s about names of people, things and others. I obtained information from a website called ‘ Baby Names World’ and several books. I realized many names have meanings but some don’t. I decided to use a person's name to develop my game I made a game that is interactive mixed with Flash and I Stop Motion. I realized it was complicated and I needed help to finish this work. My tutor assisted me.

I created my character which was formed into letters of my name as the main character.

In this game the character showed that names come from different countries and it shows the meaning of the name. It was a guessing game that enabled the viewer to guess the correct name.

My Animation Exercises

Below there are some examples of my animations. I learnt a lot about the timing and movement.

Kicking a football into windiow

Flower / Rose Glowing

By Me 

My first animation- The Aeroplane Crash

This is the first animation I've made, it's about an aeroplane crash. I used I Stop Motion and did lots of drawing and planning in my storyboard. I think it was a interesting idea about Phobias. It did turn out the way I planned it and I'm pleased with it.

The problems I had was trying to get the running and walking movement right. I looked at pictures in books, on the internet and also people in real life, then tried to figure out which camera angles I should use. 

On the scene when the girl was running away from the burning plane I made a mistake with the camera as you can see the peg bar, but on the big screen you can not see it. Sorry about that.