Week 8: Stop Motion with Music and SFX

Craft: The video was made using a SLR camera for the photos and Adobe Premiere to combine the photos into a video. The document first needed to be organized to insure all 300 photos were found in one place and extra items, like the bumper could also be located. The duration of the still images had to be controlled in Premiere so that the animation would run smoothly. After some difficulties and experimentation, I set the still image frame rate to 4 images per second. The music was created in Garage Band and I pulled royalty free sound effects from the website www.freesfx.co.uk/.

Concept: I wanted to create a variety of forms from clay in this video.

Composition: Each of the 300 photos demonstrate a different motion in the clay so the scene would progress in the composition. What made the composition different was the addition of music and sfx to convey the actions going on in the animation.

Week 5: Character Animation with Voice

Craft: This character was created using Adobe Character Animator. This program requires very strict organization of head and body components to make sure the character moves and speaks properly. Using a template in CH that redirected me to photoshop, I was able to created my own character by drawing certain components of the character in each layer group. For example,  before I drew a pupil for the character's eye, I had to make sure I was drawing the pupil in the same layer that the template character's pupil was drawn in. After drawing my character, I used a variety of tools to make sure the character's body was under a certain level of control. Tools like the eye gaze strength allowed me to control where the pupil sits in the character's eye ball. The pin tool helped to keep the character balance in the legs so it would not wobble so much. I then recorded the voice. I noticed that the dialogue and lip sync were not quite in sync so I used the option to "compute lip sync from scene audio" to ensure the sound would align with the lip sync. All that was left was adding a background image to give the character a setting.
Concept: This assignment required that I create a non-human character. Having this task really allowed me to use my imagination in what this character would look like and what type of personality it would have. I decided to create a mysterious, woodland creature who has been living for quite a few years and create a monologue that exhibited this.
Composition: After I created this character and the monologue, the background for it instantly fell into place. The background was actually a previous work I had created prior to this assignment which I thought matched the mysteriousness of my creature perfectly.

Week 6: Stop Motion Animation

Craft: The video was made using a SLR camera for the photos and Adobe Premiere to combine the photos into a video. The document first needed to be organized to insure all 300 photos were found in one place and extra items, like the bumper could also be located. The duration of the still images had to be controlled in Premiere so that the animation would run smoothly. After some difficulties and experimentation, I set the still image frame rate to 4 images per second.

Concept: I wanted to create a variety of forms from clay in this video.

Composition: Each of the 300 photos demonstrate a different motion in the clay so the scene would progress in the composition.

Week 7: Stop Motion (Bumper, Titles)

Craft: The video was made using a SLR camera for the photos and Adobe Premiere to combine the photos into a video. The document first needed to be organized to insure all 300 photos were found in one place and extra items, like the bumper could also be located. The duration of the still images had to be controlled in Premiere so that the animation would run smoothly. After some difficulties and experimentation, I set the still image frame rate to 4 images per second.

Concept: I wanted to create a variety of forms from clay in this video.

Composition: Each of the 300 photos demonstrate a different motion in the clay so the scene would progress in the composition.

Week 3: Pouring Animation

Craft : This rotoscoping video was created using Adobe Photoshop. I first recorded a video of liquid being poured from a bottle into a cup. I then brought the video into Photoshop. After the content was brought into Photoshop, it was important to organize the layers so the tracing of the video would have its own working layer. The three layers needed were Video, Background, and Drawing. Making sure I was in the drawing layer before i switched from frame to frame, I simply traced over key elements in the video's composition such as the cup, the bottle, and the liquid.
Concept: The point of this exercise was to create an animation using the rotoscoping technique to show a simplistic yet energetic action take place.
Composition: The composition was very simplistic due the the process of rotoscoping being very time consuming. I wanted to make sure that the video showcased the act of pour/spilling a liquid would be the subject of the animation.