Claymation With Play-Doh

Materials
- Play-Doh
-Cardboard
-Paper
-Camera
-imovie

Making the Animation
Began by making a set that was relative for my music choice the sculpted out my play-doh into the shapes I wanted. Then using my camera I took pictures of the different photo shoots that I wanted one by one and connected the camera to the computer to import them into imovie, making sure that all the pictures fit the frame then making clip adjustments. When I was happy with the adjustments I made to import the music, ABC by Jackson 5, 

Improvements 
- Using characters of the jackson 5 getting them to hold the 'A, B, C ' and some other lines from the lyrics
- Making the animation longer
-Trying to slow down the music as it seemed a bit fast

Adobe Flash Animation Shape Tween

Techniques, Materials & Equipment 

What materials and equipment did you use?

We used the software Adobe Flash animation when creating this animation and following a tutorial.

Did you enjoy using these techniques?

Making this animation was quite difficult and at times as I hadn't used this software before.

Would you like to work with them again?

Yes i would like to work again with this type of animation again, wanting to see what else I can create and the different things that I'll be able to do with Adobe Flash Animation.

How could you improve on your animation?

Improvements:

Adding Text

Using Different Shapes 

Maybe Adding More Shapes

Making the Shapes into characters giving them different facial expressions

Tea Practice Animation

IDEAS & CONCEPTS

What were your ideas for the animation?

We were selected different foods to create an animation from. My food i was given was teabags were I then decided to create a box which then opens up with another box inside with two teabags insides.

 How did you come up with the ideas? 

I was inspired by the skittles commercial, how they make the skittles come out of the bag to form different words and shapes.

Were your ideas effective? How could you improve on your animation?

Yes i do think my animation was effective however it maybe improve my animation 

TECHNIQUES, MATERIALS & EQUIPMENT

What techniques did you use?

Using stopmotion i took the pictures one by one with my Ipod and then uploaded them onto the computer were i cropped them and imported into imovie.

What materials and equipment did you use?

- imovie

-Paper

-Pencils

-Teabags

-Scissors

Did you enjoy using these techniques?

Yes i enjoyed using this stop motion animation technique even though it is a longer technique to use for animation it still worked well and had the opportunity to add music in the background. I would definitely work with this animation technique again but this time making improvements and to do different things.

Stop-Motion Animation

Coffee Time from wan-tzu on Vimeo.

The creator for the coffee time animation is Wan-Tzu, using materials such as coloured paper and string to make the coffee machine and the cup of coffee. The techniques which was used to make this animation was stop-motion, where the object is moved in small movements and taken in individual photo frames. When he was creating the coffee box we realised that they must of created the box first and then dismantled the box and reversing the order of that to make

I like the artists work and the way he created the animation it looks like such a simple animation however a lot of work in creating the separate boxes and the pictures for the coffee machine also what i found with the other animation was that must of then consisted of music but with this one it was more of the sound effects of paper tearing etc.










 

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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