plan C

due to the terrible software used in the college i have lost my exported files as well as my original clips from both singing in the rain and the pixilation coins. because of this i have had to use my very first model based animation that i created during the christmas period.
with this animation i was very pleased as it was my first one.


below is a link to the finished and final animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar6kzw0zPio

once i was happy with this and agreed that this was the best option i submitted my animation to an online website called padlet. this is somewhere you can submit your work and people can write comments and their opinions on your work

http://padlet.com/lauramoodyvpa/2lee574pqnak

Edited and exported

I decided last week that i was going to change my animation to a form of pixelation using coins. i thought that this would be a good way to demonstrate both clay based animation and pixelation.
I collected together all of my clips which included a wide shot and close ups of each individual pile of coins. once happy with the clips i took them to Adobe Premier Pro (a video editing software i feel most comfortable using) and i put the clips in the order i wanted them. The timeline of the clips seemed a little short so i used some different video editing techniques to make the clip longer these included slowing down the clip speeding up the clip and transitions.
because of the camera quality and angle of the clips i shot i wasnt happy with the appearence so i changed the colour of the clips to black and white to make them more even through out the animation.
overall i am pleased with how the animation turned out.
next week i will find some quirky creative commons music to place in the background of the animaton to bring it to life.

back up plan

i decided that i wasnt very happy with my animation so i created a back up plan.
the reason why my first animation didnt fit to my expectations was due to the model itself i didnt think that it was very moveable which caused the animation to look tacky.
For the back up plan i decided to use still life items in this case money. i wanted to show the money piling up and down to funky music. i will subit both animation as they are both different techniques of stop motion animation.

This week i finished all of the clips i would use for the animation this involved close ups of each coin piling up aswell as a full wide shot of the piles forming next to each coin. After half term i will focus on editing the clips together and play around with different effects to make the animation more appealing.

close ups and editing

This week i worked on the close ups for the animation.
i think that there are still alot of room for improvements which i will work on over the next few weeks

i took all of the clips into imovie, and decided that i didnt want to edit in that programme so i decided to edit in Premier pro.

I got the clips in the order i wanted and added the music in the background
next week i will work on tightening up the clips and editing the music to to sections that i desire to use.

starting filming

i created the main shot of my animation where the model enters the street and dances i am not very happy with the shot so i am thinking about filming it again.
next week i am going to do some different angles and close ups of the model to use as cut aways
but i am happy with the back drop

creating the model week 2

i carried on working with the model this week aswell as finding possible back drops for the animation.
for the model i used bent wires to secure the body parts securely in place. i then added facial features such as eyes mouth nose and eye brows. i made the suit appear more 3 dimensional and tested the stability of the model and how long it can stand in place.
the model could possibly be improved in stability but it can stand for about 30 seconds which is more than enough time to stand without being touched when i begin to make the animation.

Next week i will work on the props for the model using paper/card to make the lampost and the umbrella for the model to hold, i will also set up the back drop by printing out the chosen image and sticking in to card to make it stable

making the model

27/02/14

This week i started making the main model for my singing in the rain animation.

i used black, white, and pale pink plasticine.

i started off by making each individual body part before using wire to attach them altogether

i didnt have much time to do this this lesson so next week i will add further detail to the model and ensure that it is stable enough and is easy to move the separate body parts for the animation.