Thursday, 14 February 2013

Ideas

Ideas 


Space ship cutout animation set to some music to tell a short story.
I am planning on making my own cutout characters and things.

It will mainly consist of scenes of a spaceship flying through space.
Here is some of their music:




Stop motion animation done in a slapstick and hyperactive style much like the animation series "A town called Panic" 

Here are a few examples of this style:

"Cake"


"Cow-Hulk"


Animation Story Board


Thursday, 7 February 2013

Planning my Animation


Process of creation

Brief

Ideas
Idea creation

Planning
Research
Experimentation
Idea Development
Pre-Production
Character design
Plot design
Set design

Creation
Creation of characters, set and other things
Animate
Credit and edit in imovie
sound (Garage band recommended)

FINISHED ANIMATION

Green = Done
Black = Yet to do

Cutout animation research

Some cutout animators like to use a Rostrum Camera.
This is a camera often used in film and television to animate still pictures or objects.

They consist of a movable platform for placing the picture of object on, and a camera attacked to a column, with this the camera can be used to create certain effects such as wipes and zooms.

Here are a few examples of Rostrum Cameras: