stop-motion models

In this weeks animation practise, Emma Calder came in to show us how to make stop motion models using wire and various other materials. the models we made were based on random, we got words from a hat and put them together, in this case a greedy woman and a thirsty bee. next week we will be animating them.

Drawing character rotation task

character drawn from 6 different angles

Hand Drawn Animation

This weeks animation practise was all about Hand drawn animation, all frames drawn by hand and then scanned and put together on film or computer, one of the most famous examples of these would be the Mickey Mouse original Steam Boat Willy. To do this we used light boxes to see what was on the frame beneath the top paper and started off by making the key frames then just simply filled in the gaps. For the weeks task in animation practise, this animation is of a person catching a ball and throwing it elsewhere.

Drawing (15th November)

for the first task, seats were put around a room in a strange way. the objective was to draw the person sitting in front of you and then change places. this meant that we would get different people at different angles.

 the second task was to draw six drawings of the same person as they faced in different directions, although for drawing three and four you couldn't use the person as a reference as you yourself was also turning around and facing different directions

Drawing (November 8th)

Illustrated model using ink. we also had to use the rooms lighting to catch the shadows. on the 5th drawing onwards we did a negative lighting,
we shaded in the light parts and left the dark parts.

in drawing 10 and 11 we focused on drawing the space around the model. the last drawing was done in dark based on memory.












In the next task, the model did different poses in different locations and drew each pose into the same image.

light and sound

Light animation is animation involving the use of light, be it stop motion, time lapses or extended shutter time. there are many ways to play with light animation in order to get an effect that would usually be invisible to the human eye or will just be unnoticeable, an example of this would be "Light goes on" a light animation that uses time lapse and stop motion to create a skateboarding skeleton. For this weeks task I made a time lapse video of ice melting made for light animation task. Part of the task was to incorporate sound in order to show things when and where the animation took place

Drawing (November 1st)

 In this session we learned about how to measure what we are drawing, hold pen out and move thumb down so that the top is aligned with the head and the thumb is aligned with the chin. then count how many times this fits into the model and use these measurements as a guide. the picture to the left has illustrations were I used this technique (the drawing in the top left was done without this technique)

The last task (pic 3) was to draw the model as simple stick men.