This is an idea I might do for my stop motion animation. My idea is using the lego figures to create a story that lasts 30 seconds or more. The more frames I use the better the clips will look. If the frames are too small, the clips will look rough and not as good. Using more frames will make it run smoothly throughout.
Angry Kid
My second choice is model based animation using clay to create the models for the 30 second clip. I would also use mini props to create a better background or something that could be included in the story. I want the story line to be similar to the one above. I like it as it looks clever and cool on how they created something like this. The noises that are made in the background are well created to join up to the clips and well throughout when things aren't in shot which still make a noise, for example the footsteps coming towards the models on the table.
This is my third choice. This is stop motion of people doing karate while lying on the floor instead of stood up. This is to make it more interesting and more enjoyable. I would do something similar to this.
Another idea for my stop motion animation is drawing using time-lapse. I will find a suitable picture on the internet for me to draw. I will be sped up either 2/3 times faster depending whether im taking my time.
This is my final idea for my time lapse animation. Doing a make up time-lapse. I will be putting make up on Gemma and videoing it on I stop motion as a time lapse. A picture will be taken every 2 seconds to get the best look for the animation.
This is kiwi during decomposing. This was taken by taking a picture once a day, showing the results that would turn out if you leave a kiwi for a few days. They would place the camera in the same position everyday to make it look like its moving. They would set the camera to a time lapse mode or they would set a timer on when they want the picture to be taken. This would take the picture automatically. The video is taken over 37 days. Eventually you can see the bacteria spreading on to of the kiwi fruit rapidly over the 37 days.
Cell based
Snow White (Cel animation)
These images show CEL images for the making of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. These were produced by Disney. The first thing they did with Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs was that they didn't colour the images in that they had created/drawn. It was kept as a CEL images. All that was included was pencil drawings and the paper behind. The background would stay the same but the image in front, usually the characters, would move.
It is called Cel because they use a Celluloid sheet. They place the Celluloid sheet on top of the background that is usually in a fix position. The Cel sheet is made from plastic. This is so its easier to layer the sheets on top of each other. So if you make a mistake it isn't a much of a deal than if you did use one sheet. The cel technique relies on fixed principles. These principles are:
Keyframes: Which represent the beginning and end of movement.
Tweening: Frames that are added between the first and last frame to give the appearance of continuity in motion.
Cut out animation
Rusalka (Cut out animation)
The cut out technique is using flat character, props and backgrounds to create a scene which looks real. They would use materials such as paper, card or photographs. Cut out can be produced using computers with scanned images or vector graphics.
South Park (First episode)
The very first South Park was made with paper cutouts before switching to computer software. Cut out can also include silhouette animation to make a joint product. The characters were pieced together and filmed frame at a time on an animation stand. The show later on decided to use an a computer to make the shows, using Flash to simulate the cut out animation look showing the shadows using the 3D characters. This is rendered to make it looks 3D while trying to retain the cut out look.
My own cut out animation
This is my own cut out animation I made using cut outs from different magazines. I cut out more than what I used in the video but they would of been added in later on in the video. This took 30 minutes to make and it only lasts roughly 10 seconds. We used istopmotion to capture the whole video using pictures that are put together. You can the edit them by making the video different speeds. When theres more of a chaotic bit in the video it can be sped up.
Model based animation
This is an animation Wallace and Gromit. This is an model based animation created by Aardman. They have generated 4 mini length films and 1 feature length film. This is a longer process to go through as it take 24 frames to make a second film and an average of 30 frames can get completed in a day meaning over 1 second of the film is made a day. The feature length film took 15 months to make. Some of the in the feature film were done on the computer as it would of been impossible to make them using stop motion.Clay is the most used for model based animation as it is easy to model and easy to make into a 3D object. The movies they make out of these are mostly aimed at children as it reassembles the children's play-doh but most model based animation have adult themes to appear to both children and adults.
This uses clay to create a character and they use pictures for the background. They a shot every time they move something. This would then create a video which would look realistic to the people watching. The characters made would only be mini but the camera angles are crucial. They get close up to the models they have made and then they take a picture. They then move the characters very slightly and take another picture. This would then create a sequence. When the models are moving it gives an illusion of movement.
Ironmania (Forestfire101)
This is also another model based animation. Although this time it uses Lego instead of the usual clay. This was created by a YouTuber Forestfire101. Instead of it targeted to children, its targeted towards adults as it has adults themes throughout. Such as fighting, blood, swearing and jokes aimed towards adults as children wouldn't get them. This would be created through stop motion but they would use computer technology to make their mouths move, to make the ironman move and to make them more realistic.
My own Model based animation
This is my own model based animation. I used clay to produce this. I used Stop Motion camera on the iMac to capture each shot of the video. It took roughly 15 minutes to create this properly but deleting different sections of the video to make it look better. I had to retake a couple shots as they either had my hand in the shot or the camera angle wasn't the same as the shot before.
Pixilation
Pixilation is produced by taking a picture with every movement. Its also part of a stop motion technique. It usually made with people which are called live actors are used as a frame by frame in an animated film. They change their pose slightly before taking the next picture. The techniques that are used in Pixilation using computers are Cel shading, motion capture, non-photorealistic rendering, digital puppetry, virtual cinematography and many more techniques.
Pixilation is similar to time lapse as they both take pictures in a sequence to produce a film/video.
Angry Kid (Pixilation/stop motion)
In Angry Kid they used pixilation and stop motion animation. They used a mask to pixilate the face and used real people for the character. They used stop motion animation to film the whole video.
Angry Kid (Pixilation/stop motion/green scree
In this episode of Angry Kid they use stop motion, pixilation and a green screen. He acted as if it was happening in real life by trying to cycle away as fast as he can from the bus behind. the camera would of moved by the Angry Kid would be still but cycling.
Norman McLaren
Neighbours
Norman McLaren used the stop motion animation to create a film.
He would use multiple of pictures together to create a film. Stop motion is a technique used where live actors are used as a frame by frame animation film. Each picture is taken by a slight change in poses before the next frame is taken. He used the Cine - kodak camera which enabled him to use some trick shots.
Our own pixilation
This is a pixilation I did myself which also includes me , Gemma and Courtney. We took a picture every 2 seconds with one of us always pressing the mouse. We only did slight movement in the shot to create the illusion of movement. This video lasts 30 seconds and roughly has 5 frames per second. Meaning the whole of the video has 150 frames in altogether.
istopmotion
istopmotion is commonly used to create stop motion animation. It's an easy way of creating this as the tools that you use on the istopmotion are easily spotted. Most people who create things at home or college would use this as it comes with the Apple devices which are commonly used for animations like this one.
Persistence of vision
Persistence of vision is a reinvention of a visual image for a short amount of time. This is an illusion of movement when viewing motion pictures.
Zoetrope
A Zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings put together. The first one that had been made was 1833 or 1834 by a British man called William George Horner.
Thaumatrope
A Thaumatrope was made in the 19th century made by John Ayrton Paris or Peter Mark Roget. It was a disk with a picture on each side which is attached by two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled together quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to blend into each other due to the persistence of vision. Gently pulling the strings the image will spin and the motion of the images will become an illusion.
Phenakistoscope
Phenakistoscope is a device that uses persistence of vision to create an illusion of motion. Phenakistoscope was made in 1832. Joseph invented it but later Simon von Stampfer makes that year independently.
Kinetoscope
Kinetoscope was invented for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a little peephole window at the top of the device. It was invented by Thomas A Edison and William Dickson which are from the United States. The device was made in 1891. The device works from a strip of film that is rapidly passed between a lens and an electric light bulb. This happens while you peep through the peephole in the viewer. Apparently, it was the first motion picture ever produced on photographic film in the United States. Also was the only surviving film from a cylinder Kinetoscope.
Mutoscope
The Mutoscope was an early motion picture device made by Winsor McCay. It was made in 1895 to 1909. It is similar to the Kinetoscope and is also cheaper. It was classed as "A Moving Picture Machine." The Mutoscope worked on the same principle as a flip book. The images were made on conventional black and white, silver based photographic prints on tough, flexible opaque cards. The cards inside the machine were attached to a circular core. A typical Mutoscope held about 850 cards which gives a viewing time roughly about a minute. The machines were coin operated. To view the cards you had to look through a single lens enclosed by a hood. The cards were generally lit electrically. The reel was driven by a geared down hand crank.
Early Pioneers in animation
George Melies - was a magician. He would use different tricks in the animation to trick the audience, for example using his face twice in one shot. In one film he makes the head zoom in and out by moving closer and further away from the camera because they cant move the camera.
Winsor McCay - was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip “Little Nemo” and the animation film Gertie the dinosaur.
Lotte Reiniger - Charlotte Lotte Reiniger was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. She anticipated Walt Disney by over ten years. She made over 40 films over her career, all using her invention. 1918-1979.
