Response to Feedback

I am happy with the animation that i have made, i would have liked to reverse the footage of the Rubik's Cube, so that it looked like it was solving its self, but i could not do it in iMovie.


 I am happy with the feed back i have from my animation, however i have to say that i could probably make some improvements to the animation its self.








 I would shoot it in HD at 12 frames per second. I may make some changes to the animation, i would like to add more object to animate.
over all i am happy with the project and my responses

My Finished Stop Motion Animation

How i made my animation

I made my animation by using an iPad 2, i used the app iStopMotion. i set the iPad up in a fixed position and moved the object taking a photo every time i moved the object, to make it look like there where moving. I then uploaded my footage into the program iMovie to edit. i selected the footage i want and cut the bits i didn't want to use. I added transition and text which where already on the iMovie program i did this by dragging them onto the footage where i wanted them. I then add sound from iMovie by dragging and dropping it onto the footage.

here is a screen shot of me editing my aniamtion

I have add text at the beginning saying what the animation is and that is is presented my myself.
I have also gave each animation clip a subtitle.
I have gave the video a transition "Fade through Black" to make the video run more smothly.
the sound that i have used was available by Apple on iMovie, it is called "Buddy"

My Stop Motion Research

In Todays Lesson...

I have once again changed my idea. After some difficulty with the flowers, i decided to make some stop motion animation. I have decided to use different objects to show a mixture stop motion.

Animation Time Line

I have made a small time line of some of the things i think are important in the history of animation.

What i am going to do...

I am going to set up my time laps in a studio, and have a webcam plugged into a laptop taking a photo of the flowers every 5 minets. I will leave this for 5 hours undisturbed, this will give me 60 frames. I will play the time laps 1 frame a second so i will have a minet of footage. If this dose not look good i will play 2 frames a second to speed it up.

Examples of My Idea

Here is some examples of time-lapses of flowers


Timelaps of Amaryllis flower from aboutme on Vimeo.


Flowering from Joelledevries on Vimeo.

In Todays lesson...

i have decided to change my idea of a clay animation to a time laps of a vase of daffodil. In my time laps i will capture the  flowers blooming. daffodil will has full bloomed in about 5 hours after beening put in a vase of water.

I will set up  a camera to take a photo every 5 mines for 5 hours. this will give me 12 frames from 1 hour and a total of 60 frames for the time laps. If i make the time laps play one frame a second i will have a one minuet of footage.

I will edit the song "Morning Mood" to play through the duration of the time laps. At climax of the song which begins at 50 seconds, the daffodils should have almost fully opened. I will edit so that the song will fit.

In Todays Lesson...

I have been looking at music for my animation, music such as :
                 The 1812 Overturn - Batoven

                       Morning Mood -  Grieg

I have decided to go with the morning Mood song. Influenced by the song i have decided to go with the theam of the country meadow. I will make the meadow scene out of modeling clay.

  

Plot1:
I have decided to go with is that a rabbit will come out of a hole to the sound of the music. The changes in the song will effect that is happening in the scene. I have not yet decided how it will end, i would like it to be comical. I may have a poacher shoot the rabbit.

Pot 2
Similar to plot 1, a rabbit coming out of a hole to the sound of the song "Morning Mood" but it turns out the rabbit is on a golf corse. Rabbit get hit with a golf ball, wonders what it is then gets bombarded with more golf balls. 

In todays lesson...

I have been inspired by a model animation i have seen on vimeo.

This is the animation...


The Duplicators - Cartoon Network ID shortie from Meindbender on Vimeo.

What Technique Do I Want To do For My Own Animation?

I have decided that i am going to create my animation in model based. I have chosen this because in my examples of animations, model bases was the most successful and enjoyable. I do not yet know what the story line is going to be.

Adding sound in Garageband

Hear i have edited a song to fit with a video. I did this in GarageBand, I cropped and faded the sound.