Time Lapse Food Animation

Ideas & Concepts 

What were your ideas for the animation? How did you come up with this ideas?

When coming up with the ideas for the animation we created a mind map, thinking of things associated with the item we were given, describing the tem and even ideas of what the animation would be about.

Were your ideas effective for your food item? Did you concept work?

The ideas that we came up for the gingerbread men related well to the christmas cake decorations that were with the item. So from the decoration we decided to go with the christmas theme and the classic snowman story as the gingerbread men looked like snowmen.

How could you improve on your animation?

Improvements: Adding music in the background so that it isn't silent, maybe speeding up the decorating gingerbread animation as it's a bit slow and can get a bit boring cause its quite long.

Techniques, Materials & Equipment 

What techniques did you use? 

Using the app imotionHD on the ipads and the manual setting for the gingerbread animation, we captured the images one by one, moving the items each time. Then for the drawing animation using the time lapse setting which automatically took the images.

What materials and equipment did you use?

Materials & Equipment: Ipads, Gingerbread Men, Icing, Cake decoration, using the app imotionHD, Manual setting, Time Lapse setting

Did you enjoy using these techniques? 

Even though when using the manual setting we had to hold the ipads while capturing the images one by one which was a long technique, I preferred the time lapse techniques that automatically took the pictures as it was more quicker and easier to use.

Did you find them hard/difficult to work with?

The App was straight forward and easy to use.

Animation Project - Making A GIF

• How did you create your animated Gif?

We created the Gif in photoshop by firstly loading all the pictures for my Gif into a stack then going to Windows ➔ Animation, then a little box animation frames appeared. One by one we 'duplicates selected frames' then hiding the picture, repeating this until all was done but not hiding the last one.

• How effective is your animation? i.e. does it work well?

My Animation works well and is very effect ion its clear as to what I'm doing, making an experiment the pictures work nicely and flow well together. 

• What could you do to improve your animation? i.e. make it longer / add in some typography / try some different Adobe Photoshop techniques.

Improvements - I would of maybe liked to of made it longer or to of made an experiment which that exploded everywhere

- To of added some typography or some effects to make it more interesting

• Which artist did you look at for information on this technique?

We looked at Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg who's work mainly consumes of cinemagraphs 

• If you did this again what would you do to improve? Remember, you might decide to do this for your final outcome so this evaluation could be helpful!

Given the opportunity again to create this gif I would decide to change the angle of where I'm sitting i would prefer to be standing/sitting facing straight. I would also take the picture in a proper science classroom having a lot of science equipment around me. 

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