My final animation, for now!

Above is my finished and final animation, for the year. To be honest this years' piece is not my best fare, I would be inclined as to say it was my worst, this is mainly due to a delay in the planning of it. If I had more time, then this animation would be more closer to what I had already storyboarded.

My storyboard.

How did I make him?
I decided to make him out plasticine: I mixed together some plasticine to make the flesh colour of Mickeys' face, made two concave shapes for the ears, made his facial features by rolling out three tiny dots of black plasticine (nose and pupils) and two white ovals. I made the choice to flatten him as an experiment to see how Aardman animated "Rex the runt." I made the Juggling Balls by rolling plasticine into a ball shape.

What equipment did I use?

I used a hue hd webcam as my camera,

iStopmotion and iMovie to animate and edit (respectively).

iStopmotion

To animate my version of a certain mouse, I only moved whichever part I was animating about a millimetre at a time and then took a shot from the camera and repeated this process until I had about ten seconds of footage, in iStopmotion.

iMovie

In iMovie, I imported the finished animation and soundtrack onto the timeline and added the titles and credits.
Padlet link:

http://padlet.com/pinkieguy690/ee6zrs8aax3e

Here are some responses from a few of my peers.

Storyboard.

This is the storyboard of my animation.

Equipment and prop list.

Equipment list:

• Plasticine (Black, Blue, White and Red).
• Hue camera (1).
• Black shoe lace (1).
• Lego pieces (Black, Grey, White) approx 50 pieces.
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Prop list:

• Car battery (built out of lego).
• Table.
• Gothic background (printed).
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animation ideas.

Looking into new ideas for my animation, Below are some examples of what type of narrative I would love to create for my own animation.

What I like about this short is the fact that it shows wild and gothic imagination of Tim Burton.
An idea for my animation could be: Minnie Mouse, Bride of Mickeystein is pull together the gothicness of Tim Burton and the saccharine image of Disney.

Trailer #1
Frankenstein — MOVIECLIPS.com

Navigation.

Persistence of vision.

Early animation devices.

Cel based animation.

Time Lapse animation.

Cutout animation.

Model based animation.

Pixilation.

Early animation devices.

Zoetrope:

This is a pre-animation device, which produces the illusion of movement by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing the progressive phases of movement, E.D: a child kicking a football.

Mutoscope:

Also known as "what the butler saw" machines, due to depicting: rude, lewd and risque situations, and images. They were a pre-motion picture device that worked on the same principle of a flip-book, operated via a hand crank.

Kinetoscope:

The kinetoscope was an early motion-picture exhibition device which introduced the basic approach to cinematic projection, which was used up until the advent of video.

Persistence of vision.

What is persistence of vision?

Persistence of vision is the illusion of movement using slightly different shots.

A good example of this would be if i animated a character of mine waving.

First shot would be the character preparing to wave. second shot, The character would start to wave. Each frame will be slightly from the previous in the movement of the characters' hand, depending upon fast or slow my character is moving will impact on how many frames will need to be used, i.e: if the character is slowly waving then that will use more frames. However, if my character was waving quickly then less frames will be needed.

cel based animation.

How is it animated?

Firstly, all characters and backgrounds are drawn onto paper (labeled from 1 - 25, due to there being 25 frames in a second of film), then, the characters and backgrounds are traced onto an individual cel which will be flipped onto the reverse side and painted in. The cel is then flipped back onto the shiny side and take two shots from your camera, repeat this process until you've finished the scene (be warned, cel takes at least six months to produce the actual animation).

This video can explain it more clearly.

Examples:

Regular Show:

Regular Show is about the fantastical misadventures of two park-keepers (nee' slackers) named Mordecai (a blue jay) and Rigby (a raccoon). 

Dexter's Laboratory:

Dexter's Laboratory is all about how one boy genius, Who will defend his secret, hidden, laboratory from his "stoopid" sister, DeeDee.

Powerpuff Girls:

Powerpuff girls is about three super powed girls (Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup) saving the city of Townsville from the clutches of evil.

Time Lapse animation.

How is it made?

Time lapse animation is easy to set up but takes so much to animate. How to set up your camera for a time lapse, set up a tripod for your camera (this will give some stability to your shoots), fix your camera to the tripod and set the function on your camera to time lapse (whilst also setting an interval time, e.g 2seconds).

Examples:

Pregnancy time lapse.

Speed draw time lapse.
Reverse time lapse.

cutout animation 2015

THIS IS A CUTOUT ANIMATION WHICH WAS MADE WITH A GROUP OF MY PEERS.

Cutout animation is created by literally cutting out the models, props, backgrounds.. anything flat that can be used to create an animated piece.

The actual animation is created by moving the model or prop a little each time you take a shot, from your camera.

Examples:

Terry Gilliam:

Before he became a director, Terry Gilliam provided some silly animations for a silly comedy. This silly comedy was called Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Lotte Reiniger:

Made intricate cut outs (from the early 1920s - late 1970s), 

John Ryan:

First stop motion animation.

First animation of the year.

In the above video, we have two mice moving from one hiding place to another.

Examples of other stop motion animations:

Bagpuss:

Model based animation, with some live action puppetry.

1st Broadcast during the 70's, made using a combination of stop motion and live action puppetry (mainly when Gabriel sang a song). 

The main focus of this series is about fixing a object that was found and brought to the attention of Bagpuss and his friends, whilst they also told a story/fable and sang a song associated with the object.

Fireman Sam:

Model based animation.

The focus of most episodes were about how a fire related accident can occur and what firefighters do to prevent further damage.

Pixilation

What is pixilation?

Pixilation is a form of stop motion animation made with people, sometimes animals, instead of animation models.

Examples of pixilation:

Angry kid: An episode of angry kid is made using a combination of pixilation and stop motion puppetry. In this example, angry kid is playing football in the goalie position.

George Melies, made a lot of short films and accidentally discovered the "jump cut" and pixilation.

This is an example of pixilation, that i had a hand in the making of.