Animation with Dimenos

We were set to create a way to have the items come out of the box. We decided to have the box shake then the blank domieno push the lid off. After this we slowly moved one then gradly more and more to give it like a rush to get out of the box. We used blue tack to help us have them balanceing and overlapping each other without sliding all over the place. We did not finished however what we have I find is very good.
Dominoes in a Box Animation - Group 2 from Long Road Applied Media Diploma on Vimeo.

JAN SVANKMAJER

We were shown this mans work in class. It made me pay a lot of attension to his weird ideas however so simple. Many filmmakers are inspired by him such as Tim Burton to The brothers Quay. One of his 1st one was A Game with Stones from 1965, it was all done with random different shapes of stones and making them in to human like figures many, his work has a slight explicit content which stood him out from many others. He did his verison of Alice in wonder land, its more twisted and creepy instead of the happy and cheery version of disney intake of the story which now Tim Burton has done which is inbetween both of these ideas.

Animation Loop Ideas

We were asked to create weird and street style animations that would loop over and over. It was slighlty hard to do sometimes as the object would have to end up the same shape and size at the end for example got big and then small again however it could not get big and then expolde for example a balloon being pumped up to much. I had many all sorts of things I could do, some were harder to do actually re do as I found it hard to draw the idea. A few were to girly or not interesting enough to use.

I have chose one of the ideas which is a weird hand coming out of an old telly that is not in tune which then he turns the knob at the top right which makes the areal and light flash on the telly however gives up and it will loop in that way by doing a simple move.

I drew out my idea twice and worked out which would be the best colour and type of colouring in to use. I tried out felt tip and pencil, I found that the felt tip was to bold and did not create a good look for my idea. The pencil made it look more scrappy and worked very well for the static on the telly screen.

When I had choosen the idea I created a quick rough sketch of how it would plan out for my loop. Which then went in to my animation book which is 20 different frames. I will use the same technique as I did for my Bouncing Ball.


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We have been set to make a loop animation so we were shown an artist who does other animation work with a very strange twist to his work.
I find his work creepy but very well done. It keeps you interested and hard to keep your eye off as its so weird and wacky. He plays around with the idea and does it very complex way and also adding items you would not always see. One of the videos I did see he made an human like figure eat paper which I found so mad and funny how he thought of that as well as all his mad ideas.

Bouncing Ball

L3-YR2 LEANNE - BOUNCING BALL ANIMATION from Long Road Applied Media Diploma on Vimeo.

We created a bouncing ball animation for our 1st go. We learnt we should always work backwards when copying the other ball or working out placement as then you can see it from the last frame.
We had a piece of paper which had all 32 shots made out for us which I had to place on the correct pages to get the right effect. I added colour and a shade to my ball to make it stand out and more realistc then a simple ball as I found a little simple with out the detail.
To take the pictures we had the camera set up on a tripod point over the pictures which I turned over for each step. I used Istop motion for the recording of the book. This programme is made espically for this type of task. The last page I took about 4 of the same to give it the still effect and so It would not swap to quick back to the beginning.