I created my cartoon animation onto flash. The difficulties when I was making my cartoon character onto flash was, trying to make it walk with using the bone tool, but when I tried to make an attempt, it didn't seem that the cartoon wasn't look like it was walking. The other difficulty that I had when I was making the cartoon on flash, was uploading as soon as I was finished with it. I started to create my cartoon animation by creating a new symbol, then I added in the layers onto flash. After that, I started to create my cartoon animation. I decided not to join legs to the body of the cartoon because it was hard to drag the bone tool along the legs at times when I was trying to make it walk. The successful aspects of the animation was how the cartoon is presented altogether. But the aspects that I could improve on is, to follow the tutorial very carefully and trying to make the time to try to make more into getting the cartoon to walk.
My final animation is a stop motion of hand drawn pictures of contemporary and street dancers and skateboarders, which I edited them on Photoshop before I put them onto i Movie I also drawn pictures of skateboarders and dancers onto Photoshop. I decided to hand drawn the drawings of the dancers and the skateboarders on both cartridge paper and Photoshop instead of making props using different materials because the process of making the video will be quicker that way.
I chose music for the final animation because there are different ways to express feelings and emotions through music. My idea has change throughout the project by how I used Photoshop throughout the animation instead of making hand made props such as , cardboard skateboard ramp because the timing into making the animation will take longer if I end up making all the props and the settings of the animation without using Photoshop. The successful aspects of making the animation were sketches of the dancers and skateboarders especially the sketches on the computer. The improvements of making the stop motion video is to put a different song choice that relates to dancing and skateboarding.
The artists that I looked at help me to expand ideas of aspects of expression links into music, I also added in words that describes what both skateboarding and dancing is about.
Most of the dancers in the stop motion was mostly silhouettes that was made from black card brought out the background, the developments that I should have made is to add more of a suitable backgrounds for somes of the hand drawn sketches or add a background to the drawings that does not much of the settings of the animation and add more variety of colour towards the final outcome.
The skateboard ramps that are in the beginning of the stopmotion and towards the end, I found images of skate ramps that I chosen and develope it on Photoshop, so that it would easier rather than making skate ramps out of cardboard or other sources of materials.
The materials and techniques that I have experimented with during this project was learning of how to use Flash to create different types of animation such as shape tween and cartoon animation. Also I have experimented the different sorts of animation which were, stop motion and time lapse animation by using common food items and materials in limited amount of time.
The skills that I developed during this project were, embedded videos on to Blogger and creating videos using iMovie.
My use of materials and techniques was I used tea to create a stop motion of how was made and I created an animated GIF by using pictures that I took and Photoshop. The animations that went well were, the animated GIF, the stop motion and time lapse animation. The improvements that I could make in the animations that I did so far is to extend the time of my stop motion lyric video and add developments to the cartoon animation. The problems that I have with my use of materials and techniques were, creating the cartoon animation on Flash and especially trying to add effects to it for example, trying to make it walk. And the other problems that I had was completing the claymation video with the play doh. I overcome my problems by, using the pictures that I took for my claymation and make the timing accurate to the song that I chose. Also I tried to make attempts to complete the cartoon animation.
I created my animated GIF by using pictures that I found of historical buildings for my background of my GIF, also I took pictures of poses of myself behind the slideshow of the historical buildings which turned into silhouettes of myself and I added timing to animated GIF by using Photoshop. I created my stop-motion lyric video by taking pictures of the lyrics of the song that I chose which was Daylight that most of the words was handmade, then I put the pictures onto iMovie. After that, I added the song for my lyric video onto iMovie. For my time lapse video I used an iPad to create a video of stages of how I did my drawing observation of a water bottle. For my claymation video by using play doh and iMovie. The video is based on the song that I chose which was uprising. For the shape tween I used Flash to create effects by making one shape into another. My preference will be the animated GIF because the stages of making the animated GIF is more simpler than the other animation techniques that I have done through out the project.
The animation video was by Ryan J Woodward, the video is called Google-Martha Graham. The animation was advertise by Google, the idea behind the animation video was the contemporary skills and techniques of the dancer and choreographer, Martha Graham. I selected this animation video because it related to the theme of the animation video that I am creating. The video is inspiring by how the artist creates different movements of the dancers in the animation video and started to create words which makes into one word. The animation that was created in this animation was cartoon animation. The techniques that was included in the animation was Flash and Photoshop and sketching of the dancers in the animation. The ideas that I can try from the video is to include movements in the dancers and the skateboarders and include colours that contrast the elements towards the video such as the skateboarding scenes will include bright colours and interesting graphics for the skateboards and possibly graffiti. The dancing scenes will include light settle tonal colours with a blend of darker tones especially when it comes to the silhouettes of the dancers.
I created the animation by making hand-made letters and pictures that showed the lyrics from the song that I chose which was daylight. I used different materials to produce words from the lyrics of the video, for example, I produced the word memory out of cotton wool and blue felt as the background which creates the illusion that the words are in shape of clouds. Also I created the word beautiful by using tissue paper as flower petals. The parts that went well are the way I used different sorts of materials to create the different styles of fonts that linked in with the lyrics of the song. The parts that I could improve is to make the video start at the same time as the song.
My claymation is based on a music video on a song that I chose which is called Uprising. The materials that I used to create my claymation was play doh. I used the play doh to create different props that related to the lyrics to the claymation video the improvements that I want to make to the video is make timing of the video longer by taking more pictures of the props of the claymation video. Also I want to change the position or layout of the props so that will take the pictures in different angles.
