evaluation

Through out the animation project I used different techniques and materials that help me lead to my final animation. The techniques that I used for the animation project was,
- stop-motion
- claymation
- animated GIF
- cartoon  flash animation/shape tween
- time-lapse animation

For stop-motion, I made a music video that is basically lyrics that was from the song that I chose, which was Daylight by Maroon 5. Also I made props that relates to the lyrics to the song. The other part of the stop-motion was I chose a food item which was tea, and I used the ipad to take shots of how the tea was made, before I made the stop motion video, I did a mind map of the food item that I ended up using.

For the time lapse animation, I used the observational drawing of the water bottle, and I used the ipad to take pictures of I drew the water bottle. The animated GIF that I have done was I did a slide show of historical buildings on power point because the subject that I chose for the animated GIF was history. After I had taken the pictures of the slide show I put them on Photoshop and chose how  many seconds the GIF was going to last.

I did my claymation video by making props of the setting of the song which was Uprising by Muse. I made the props such as the bear and the lamp posts by using play dough. Then I put the photos of the setting of the claymation video and put them onto iMovie. Afterwards, I dragged the song that I chose from iTunes onto iMovie. For the cartoon animation and the shape tween, I done both of them on Flash.  I first created the shape tween, by using the oval tool to create a oval shape ,then I  insert a keyframe. After wards I use the rectangle tool to create a rectangle. The effects that I use to create the shape flash animation by I soften the edges of the rectangle so that when I play it back it makes the rectangle into a circle. 

For the cartoon animation that I did on Flash was I create the layers for each part of the cartoon character , then I drew the features and the parts of the cartoon on each of the layer by using the shape tools. After that, I used the bone tool onto the legs of the cartoon, to try to make it move. 

The artist and designer that I researched for the Animation project, was Jamie Beck. Her work was the inspiration for the animated GIF because the way she movements but keeps everything still makes it look outstandingly realistic, by the way she takes still pictures and makes it into a mini clip of the still image.

For the brief of the animation project, I had to make an advertisement of a product of my choice. The advertisement could be related to music, fashion and food and create it by using at least one of the animation techniques. My final outcome did fulfil the purpose of the brief by doing drawings of the ideas for the final outcome and I also did mind-maps to help decide on the layout and the song choice for the animation.

For my final animation, I had decide to chose music because there so many ways to make an advertisement or possibly a video that relates to music. Before I decided to make my final animation as a GIF, but instead I made the animation as a stop-motion. When I was making the stop-motion animation, I realised that it looked similar to the pervious stop-motion that I made but both the drawings and the music was different. Most parts of the animation was hand drawn because it saved time to start making the animation. And also it makes the animation look original especially to the drawings I made on Photoshop. 

cartoon animation

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. 

final animation

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.

final animation equipment list

The equipment that I need for my final outcome are;

• cardboard- skateboard ramp
• iMac-photoshop/ Illustrator- skateboarder 
• watercolours 
• tissue paper- music notes 
• spray paint- music note stencils 
• card- dancing/ skateboarding silhouettes, bars for the skateboarder, the love graffiti font, graffiti skull for the brick wall background 
• poster paint/oil pastels- peace symbol 
• black fineliner 
• felt pens 

project review

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. 

animation inspiration

Google - Martha Graham from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.


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.

stop motion: daylight

                            

 

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.