Cat and I created this together, using chalk, charcoal, and water. The charcoal helped to smudge the chalk and the water all but got rid of it. We forgot to do an up without the feet but the loop still works pretty well. We also decided to keep the head in the same place as we thought it would look pretty cool.
Playing with perception and Plasticine
Worked on with Cat, didn't really get the effect I was looking for but oh well.
Owl eye to cat eye, painted test.
Rather a random test, not a style I particularly enjoyed or like the effect of.
My origami boat that I did a reverse video with to make it look like it was appearing from the paper. A prototype for the boat that would appear from the humans backs.
Unedited Cat and I worked on using bands to create a sea and sun animation.
Using cut up toilet rolls I created a rendition of the "bong tree" or at least was playing with the idea. Partly because toilet rolls are cheap and easy to use but also their easily shaped into leaf qualities. (Warning last one is loud)
This didn't quite go to plan. It was going to show two ideas but I think by this time in the day my cork board was a little worse for ware and animation was no longer possible for the most part as the pins wouldn't stay in properly.
Cats origami rabbit.
She made it and then filmed it on dragon frame. I then put the frames into word and cropped and shrunk them so we could use them to scale on the background Cat had created. Again this is entirely Cat's awesome sauce work.
I messed around a little with editing after but as you can see it didn't really work. The idea was a plant that grows and as it grows the camera zooms into the cork board until you essentially get the first frame. Thus creating a loop. Though the bands themselves weren't pleasing to the eye and overall it didn't work.
Cat's animation she created with her Origami rabbit and paper background. Entirely made by her. I helped with cutting the last few of the rabbits and did the silly bloopers parts. As I wanted to see if the image moving into the distance would work.
Using the back of a cork board and some stones and acetate we created a blinking eye that grows into a fire. Then Cat and I edited on Premier to up the contrast and crop to size. This one we left in colour to better show the fire and stone variance.
We drew onto the sheet we were using to clear up all the stones and created this quick little owl animation. The original idea was to be able to animate the pen but it didn't erase easily without smudging to this idea was swapped for a simple stone animation. Playing with the fluidity of the medium we were using.
Using the back of a cork board and some stones and acetate we created a blinking eye that grows into a fire. Then Cat and I edited on Premier to up the contrast and crop to size. This one we made black and white for a higher texture and movement outcome. Aside from what it actually was.
"the owl looked up to the stars above"
Fairy lights for the stars, 8 paper boats with crayon melted to created the green speckled, then polystyrene owls with googly eyes and newspaper modeled into ears. Balloon painted blue, propped up with skewers and some stars. Rotated on a pizza plate...
So first take, not so good. Didn't quite work out but you can see where I was going.
Take two! Trying to exclude and merge to images, kinda worked.. Also tried a different spinning technique with both strings at the top. Didn't really work.
Possibly the best one, having a single image and then flipping the wings worked really well I think.
This was meant to be part of a sequence of images where the ring is the focal point. As such this is not the edited sequence. This shows the cat asking the owl "what shall we do for a ring?"
This was meant to be part of a sequence of images where the ring is the focal point. As such this is not the edited sequence. This shows "A pig with a ring at the end of his nose"
This was meant to be part of a sequence of images where the ring is the focal point. As such this is not the edited sequence. This shows "By the turkey who lived on the hill"
This was meant to be part of a sequence of images where the ring is the focal point. As such this is not the edited sequence. This shows "Got married next day". Major flaw was the cat hand... Has been pointed out to look phallic. So if I were to finalise I would change the design for obvious reasons.
his shows a transition I was planning on having where the cats eyes and owls eyes merge. This I feel also worked relativly well.
Apologies for the lack of zoom, this was all put together in windows movie maker which apparently doesn't allow you to crop/zoom into a video. And whilst I could have cropped the images individually I feel that the effect I was going for is still present in this video and felt it unnecessary.
Worked on with Jess and Joe during class using small thumbnail images, this was the second of our large scale animation tests. Where we each took a turn drawing an image and correcting each other as we went along.
Worked on with Jess and Joe during class using small thumbnail images. Where we each took a turn drawing an image and correcting each other as we went along.
So this is a video of the series of photos I took whilst studying portrait anatomy.
1) We cut rubbers down to the mm of tissue density on the face and glued them in place. I choose a regular female face.
2) We then worked on the muscles going through how they affect emotions and work in conjunction with one another and the key points of the face they affect.
3) Moving on to fat and cartilage and finally skin. We left out some of the more superficial areas within the model but still covered what they affected.
Sadly I've put this together in WMM so I haven't been able to line up the images to create a more pleasant viewing but I hope you can still see and enjoy the image.
A friend (Angelika Waigand) joined me for part of it and did the right hand side where the annotations are.
And the music is from here https://www.freesound.org/people/phob...
A final small animation we did before we cleaned up. As the rented camera battery died so the photos are taken on my phone. This was just to kinda illustrate how if we had, had a white board we could of had them interact but in the plastic liner we were using the ink just smudged so wasn't really practical.
Basic test taking the paper illusions a step further. I think that the 2D works best as it's slower and you have better control over the spinning.
Laser cutting into wood could work well I feel for this project.
So I'd seen water animation on Facebook and YouTube over the years but then Cat brought it to my attention again recently and I decided to have a go at it. It very quickly degraded into a behind the scenes video for several interesting images I made and could use as backgrounds. This was primarily because it was relatively hard to control, the nail varnish colors don't mix and so the only colors I could use were the ones I owned and didn't mind using.
The three things I tried to make was a boat on water, a tree, and an owl. These very quickly reverted back into abstract pieces as I found once I made a mistake it wasn't something I could easily rectify.
It was also interesting to see how the different brands reacted, some sinking to the bottom, others easily dissipating, some creating a film layer after only a few moments on the water. Which are variables I would test and try out if I were to use this for an actual animation so I would have more knowledge and thus control. The varnish of course also smelled bad, and more so the remover so if I were to do it again it would be in a much better ventilated room.
Music created and half sung by Isaac Page. Final music and a basic storyboard.
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