more thoughts, inspirations...

8/2/10

Checked out more animation clips Julie has posted on Blackboard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7UvbwCjXUk - Steriogram - Walkie Talkie Man- brilliant music video using animated puppets made of wool Frustratingly unable to embed this onto blog site

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiwqRSCWw2g Sepultura - Ratamahatta music video using claymation - I'm guessing this take weeks to make!! Again - can't embed this here.

My Animated World



'This Stop Motion Animation takes you into another world. In this world no physical laws count. The only laws that count are the laws of the Animator.I animated myself through my house and the city of Breda, the Netherlands. It took me 6 months to complete. That is mainly because of the weather. It wasn't always suitable to shoot my scenes.The song I used is called Chinois by DJ Aphrodite and can be found on the record Aftershock'.

Also looked at:

‘The Nose’ – Alexander Alexeioff & Claire Parker (1963). Pinscreen animation technique. 16mm Black/white 3D effect





‘Train Landscape’ (1974) – Jules Engel





‘Triangle’ (1994) – Erica Russell. Cell animation using stencils and drawings
beautiful simple drawings where movement is fluid and suspended at the same time






‘Full Moon’ (2001) Paul Glabicki. Lightwave 3D software & digital video compositing. Format: VHS, Betacom SP, DVD, colour. ‘



I read about these films in an Animation book but sadly have been unable to find them on the internet in order to upload them here.

Film-Wipe-Film’ (1983) ‘Under The Sea’ (1989) – each took 4 years to make.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH8ndxAhoRc&feature=PlayList&p=4EF895659EF47F2D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=17

‘Mothlight’ (1963) – Stan Brakhage. Collage on film – pressed dead moths between sheets of film, then re-photographed though an optical printer



‘Colour Cry’ (1952) – Len Lye. Applying, then exposing stencils and other objects directly onto film. Direct film – drew directly onto film. Painted, stencilled and scratched directly onto film.




‘Colour Box’ (1935)





‘Radio Dynamics’ (1942) – Oskar Fischinger. Technique: animated cells on nitrate stock, Format: 35mm, colour; exploring cinematic drawing




Had a look around the TV studio and editing suite in college. Obviously this is a new and daunting process as it appears so open-ended and time-consuming but it is therefore exciting also. However, I am worried about the time-scale that we have to do all this in. This is a totally new discipline. Always the same with me. If we’re all doing different processes how can we have enough one-to-one time with a tutor. Have to book time in with the TV studio technician.

Had a look at work by White Strips video director Michel Gondry
interesting use of mixing real film with projections – a great layering of story effect.




My assignment

Look at work based around the issues covered in first assignment. This work must be

Emotive
Have a cause
Inspire

(have a look at ‘how to make an animated cartoon Drawings/Video series’)

My organisation: Children/parents learning/activity sessions:
Reading
Play
Creative

Move from
Confused
Lonely
Isolated

A journey via creative play, reading and story telling to

Social
Happy
Fulfilled
Learning

I want to use drawing animation

Wax crayons drawing out children images…their feelings prior to the activity sessions and how those sessions might make them feel positive afterwards…
Use the imagery I used for the poster and leaflet designs
Drawn out words?
Photos of crafts inter-sperced with drawings


Research other adverts in a similar vein. Think about your target audience and what you are trying to convey to them – how you want to engage them. What works? What doesn’t?

Look at Youtube animation examples and tutorials for drawn animation
Make a blog as an alternative to a sketchbook (can embed research from Youtube and early experiments) Look at Julie’s blog at http://www.personalanimushadow.blogspot.com/
If using a sketchbook, take screen shots
www.netover.com/~kingskid/dolch_store/indexstore.html use of animation to get an educational message across
Look at various children’s illustrators – their styles

How to Create a Stop Motion Animation - http://wikihow/com/Create-a-Stop-Motion-Animation a simple step by step guide. Will check this process out with Derek, the TV studio technician at college. Need to know if I can use my own digital camera and if I can only really use this technique in the studio due to the need for a fixed camera - can I use a tripop at home to experiment?

Case studies and examples researched via http://www.swgfl.org.uk/Learning/Film-Animation-Mini-Site/Case-Studies/Animation wanted to see examples of animation films for ecduational use

Zu3D http://www.zu3d.com/ - a new stop-motion animation program made specifically for schools. It has been developed through primary school ICT Clubs with the expert knowledge of a professional animator who has worked with Aardman. This is software for children to use - it is both stimulating and engaging and enables children to work independtly on their own stop-motion animation. My advert must appeal to children and carers alike and therefore engage both groups.

'Through the arts, children will also develop original ideas, explore issues and solve problems. Children will take part in different activities - from singing and composing their own music to photography and animation' http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/primary-curriculumreview/downloads/83306-COI-DSCF-CurriculumReview(Summary).pdf

Looked at more drawing animation examples and saved them as print screen docs



(the author here described this as a bad animation but it gives me an idea of simple drawn animation

How to Animate - Spacing for Animation