final animation ideas

My theme for my animation is music and my video is based upon the lifestyles of dance and skateboarding. The dance styles that i chose are contemporary and street dancing, the type of animation that was the animated GIF because it creates a interesting video between the different lifestyles or elements of both skateboarding and dance. The techniques that I will include in the animated GIF is photoshop because I wanted to dancers and the skateboarders look realistic.

This is the mind map of ideas of my animated video, even though it doesn't look really clear it shows the ideas of how the animated is going to appear. It also shows what the advert is aimed at which is young teens aged between 13 to 18 year old. The advert is also aimed people that have of either dancing or skateboarding. 

These doodles shows the ideas of my animated video. I decided to do two pages of ideas of the video, one page are the doodles of people on skateboards and drawings of the skateboarding logos and the other page is drawings of both contemporary and street dancers also I wrote down words that represents dance in a graffiti font. The reason why i did two separated ideas is because when i make the video it shows a story about life and how people take their talents like dancing and skills such as skateboarding and making it come to life. 

This storyboard shows how the animated video is going to appear and the story board shows a slideshow of the aspects of dancing and skateboarding. 

Animated GIF

I created my animated GIF by taking pictures of the different historical buildings and then created the animation on Photoshop. I edited the pictures on Photoshop by adding the photos on to a different layer, then I put the photos and placed them in the animation where I started the animation or a slideshow of the pictures that I took. Finally I set the amount of seconds of each picture, the amount of seconds that I set was 0.25 seconds. My animated GIF looks really effective by the way my silhouette stood out from the historical buildings. What works well are the silhouettes of the pictures which gave the impression that the form of my silhouettes look like a tourist. The artist that I looked at and researched is Jamie Beck. The parts that I could improve is to add props to the pictures so that it will actually gave the impression that my silhouettes will give into a form of tourist.

inspiring stop motion

Address Is Approximate from The Theory on Vimeo.
I chose this video because I like how the person that created the stop motion video who is Tom Jenkins used  different locations from the computer and toys to make the concept of the world's tiniest police chase. This video is inspiring by how Tom Jenkins use innovative and unique ideas for the stop motion video especially the part in the video where background on the computer change to a bridge and make the animation look like the toy is driving underneath the bridge with using the toy car, also the lamps that created a spinning movement looked like police sirens. The type of animation is a Google street view stop motion, the props and techniques that he used are mostly toys and Google street view. The techniques that he used were taking pictures of the places from Google street view which created an illusion that the toy was the driving the toy car through the places that were shown on the computer screen. The things that I could try in my own work that is inspired by the video is to create an unique outcome that links towards the lyrics for my stop motion video and create an illusion or a movement in the text which will make the stop motion video interesting and in timing with the song that I chose for my stop motion video.


Nowhere Near Here from Pahnl on Vimeo.
I chose this video because I like how the video took a creative approach of a dog running in the city of London at night. This video is inspiring by how  Pahnl took so much time and dedication into making the video which turned to an outstanding outcome. The props and techniques that he used into making the stop motion video are, stencils and exposure photography, the way he uses the techniques in the stop motion video are he drawn stencils of the animals that he chose for the video and then he creates light in the stencils by using exposure photography. Which makes the stencils look like bright illuminate cartoon street art animals.The things that I could try in my own work that is inspired by the video is to add bright colourful photos in the middle of my stop motion video so that it creates a different outlook towards the final outcome of the stop motion video.

The PEN Story from PENStory on Vimeo.
I chose this video because I like how the pictures became into a movement that made it look like the photos from the stop motion video came to life. This is inspiring how the pictures tell a story which made the pictures look live like, the props and techniques that have been used in the video were that the pictures from the video was shot each time to create the movement of the photos which gave the video a realistic form. The things that I could try in my own work that is inspired by the video is to take pictures of the text that I created for my own stop motion video and add creative techniques to them so that the video will turn out original yet unique.

stop-motion comparison

Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes from Ross Ching on Vimeo.



Hudson - Against The Grain from Dropbear on Vimeo.


The artists who created the stop-motion animation videos uses a range of different props or materials that relates to music or the concept that the music is playing in the background of the two videos. The artist that created Against The Grain experimented with using colouring pencils, the artist use of the materials relates to lyrics by the way the artist used the colouring pencils in many different ways such as, the movement of the waves with the pencils and how the artist uses different colours of the colouring pencils that represented the use of lyrics of the video. The artist that created the Against The Grain video is Jonathan Chang. The artist has used the techniques effectively by how uses the colouring pencils to creates a different prescriptive each time which creates a outlook of what the video is about. I don't like the video as much because the artist should use others ways to express what he is feeling through the lyrics of the video by using different materials or techniques.

The artist who created the Little Bribes video is Ross Ching. The techniques that he used to create the video was time lapsing each still shot of typography that he experimenting with by finding objects or places to write the typography. The artist has used the techniques effectively by how he uses the cityscape for the background and the main source of the typography also the way the artist makes the video is the way he uses the different sorts of styles of fonts for the typography. Also he uses his use of props to make words from the Little Bribes video which makes it look uniquely different. Also he uses them to represent the cityscape at night, I like how uses different places in the city to create the different types of typography which creates the uniqueness of it.

food animation -tea

The items that I used to create the animation are tea bags and nuts. I used iMotion to create the concept of the animation, I used the tea bags to create the theme but also using to create the teapot and the cup, I also used nuts to create the illusion that the tea is pouring from the teapot and into the cup. Before I created the animation I created a mind map of ideas of the food items that I chose. I created the iMotion animation on the ipad. I enjoyed using these techniques because with iMotion I can use the items that I chose and create different types concepts and making into one concept when it is put together. My idea of my chosen food item is effective because the food item that I mainly chose is tea can be made into many different ways but the concept that I chose shows how the tea has been made or produced. I can improve my animation by adding features to the tea bags so that it will had a sense creativity towards the animation.

time lapse animation

My time lapse animation is effective by how the speed of making the process of drawing of the water bottle is done at the short amount of time. The materials and equipment that I used are, oil pastels, iPad and card, the technique that I used to create the time lapse animation of the drawing  of the water bottle is iMotion. I liked the use of techniques by how each picture that I took from the iPad and it turned into a process of drew the water bottle from my previous drawing of the water bottle. The parts that I found difficult was taking the pictures of my drawing whilst I was drawing the image of the bottle.  I would like to work on them again but I would use different materials to make the animation more creative and presentable.