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. 

Presentation

Graphics: Evaluation

Oscar Wilson

  EVALUATION

Oscar Wilson

He is a calligram artist who is know for making objects out of words. To create my own oscar wilson t-shirt design i started to sketching a silhouette design related to surfing then fitted it with surfing words that linked to the surf project, once i was happy with how the words filled into my silhouette design i then went over it in a black liner and rubbed out the pencil outline of the design, i scanned my calligram into photoshop and cleaned it up a bit and then added colour into the section which i wanted.

The difference between mine and oscar wilson's work is that his work is obviously more accurately to the shape and his design and he's words fills the shape and more of his design. Whereas to my work the words are quite squareish and i still have some gaps within my words, i wasn't able to make this really look like a palm tree.

Oscar Wilson uses within his calligram random words that has no meaning but still links to the image, which i applied t my work by using surfing words such as: Beach, Dude, Bonzer, Awesome and more. I find his work really unique and creative being able to create an image out of words in such a bold and striking way.

Graphics: Photoshop T-Shirt Stencils & Chris Ede

Photoshop Three Colour Stencils: Using brighton picture in photoshop we duplicated the layers. With one layer we then had to go to "Image" ➔ "Adjustments" ➔ "Levels" to add so contrast into your picture once done then we duplicated that layer so we ended up with 3 layers. By hiding the top layer then going to the image that we just contrasted a bit we then "Image" ➔ "Adjustments" ➔ "Threshold" making it quite dark as it would used for the bottom layer so it needs to be of colour. Next we have to delete the white going to "Select" ➔ " Colour Range" then click onto the white sections which now makes the white become selected then by pressing deselect we were now able to see it a bit underneath. Then to change the colour by going to "Image" ➔ "Adjustments" ➔ "Hue and Saturation" ticking the colourise box and changing the colour to your liking. Then going back to the other layer at the top repeating "Image" ➔ "Adjustments" ➔ "Threshold" but this time making the threshold lighter then going to "Select" ➔ " Colour Range" then click onto the white sections which now makes the white become selected then by pressing deselect then make a new layer then put the new layer underneath both of the pictures that you have worked on and either fill the new layer with white or another colour so then you have your three colour stencil.




Materials: Photographs, Adobe Photoshop, Layers, Select 'Colour Range' Function, Hue/Saturation, Threshold Function, Delete Function.

Techniques: Creating a stencil style image using a photograph and Adobe Photoshop

Equipment: Mac Computer, Adobe Photoshop

Graphics: Lin Osbourne T-Shirt

Lin Osbourne Style: By Using Photoshop and our pictures from brighton which relate to the project theme surfing, once we decided on our pictures and creating a new custom document we dragged them into photoshop and then cropped the pictures by selecting the "Crop Tool" and holding down shift was able to make a  perfect square so they would be the same size. Then going back to your custom document then drag each of your finished cropped pictures into the new document. All the pictures won't be the same size so by pressing "Cmd" & ' a grid  would help us arrange them so they are the same size. Afterwards, you place then however you would like i decided to incorporated my final logo onto the top.

Materials: Photographs, Adobe Photoshop, Layers, Crop tool, Hue/Saturation Function

Techniques: Creating a photocollage T-shirt inspired by Lin Osbourne's Photocollage's

Equipment: Mac Computer, Adobe Photoshop, Photographs