Stop animation

While looking for animated car ads I came across this video. It is stop motion, 2072 photographs. I thought it was really good.

Enjoy!

Final Film

This is our group project we have been working on. In our group we had Josh, Rachel, Ross and myself.

I think its turned out quite good and so did everyone elses that we watched today.

We have a few more weeks to build up on this video which i think will be beneficial as am sure we can improve in some of the scenes.

Group Projects.....
On monday we were given a brief for our first group project. I wasnt too keen on group work as I remember the second years (last year) had a few issues with people not pulling their weight. As the weeks gone on i'm surprised at how we are getting on with the project and everyone is getting on with their parts.

We havent really made a sheet with who's doing what as we get together a few times during the day to talk through our ideas and what we can work on and how we are getting on. Its good because we are all taking in eachothers ideas and also helping eachother out to expand on the whole animation.

I am having some issues this weekend though with my part as i am suppose to be making an alpha of the green screen videos and also rotoscoping an image but the videos wont open on my laptop so i'm not happy with that result. I am trying again but if it doesnt work then i feel a bit crap that i'm not gonna have it done for monday.

In our group we have Rachel, Josh, Ross and myself. If it turns out the way we are planning then its going to be a good animation!!!!!

So far we have taken pictures of areas we think will work well for our animation, we have taken green screen videos of one of the zombies, storyboards, research on ideas and imagery, and also played around with after effects and photoshop to zombify images. Next week is the filming and putting it all together.

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Group Project

Well here is our group project from Friday. We were given an hour to come up with an idea for pixalation and then film. We tried out the idea twice, ending up with Magical Chairs. In our group was Zoe, Josh, Emma, Ashley, Connor and myself. I think the final result is good, especially when Connor sorted the sound :D

Friday 28th.....

Today hasn't been very successful in getting work on my character done.

I have looked at the university courses and starting filling in the UCAS forms. Northumberia has a few good courses and there is one at Teesside too.

This weekend will be working on my environment and my character. Making him do the walk cycle and hopefully I can get that somewhat finished by Sunday so that next week is just doing the actual 15 second walk cycle and printing off all my documents (I hope I haven't just jinxed myself there).

Enjoy your weekends everyone!!

Squeggs Leg ooo la la

I am happy with the shapes of the legs now, kind of like karate style pants. I am not worrying about the texturing at the moment for the clothes for the line test.

But yes i am happy with this shape.

I also was going to make his hands rounder but then thought i like how they arent perfectly round as it adds to his character and i like them like this :D

Old Cartoons

This is a video i found while searching Youtube for animations. Its a bit jumpy as its very old and even though there is no sound its still funny.



This is another video that was interesting with different clips of old cartoons. Is good to see the movement of the characters and the simplicity of the frames.