Stop Motion Reflection.

Link to stopmotion animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dym8DD1AhHc&feature=plcp

·       What did you do and how did you do it?
We split into teams and set out to create a full Stop Motion animation. My team took toy figures and animated them. We were originally going to do claymation which is moving clay and taking repeted photos. An example of claymation is Wallace And Grommit.
·       Does your final design meet your original intentions?
No. Our original design was supposed to be pretty serious with fighting and some gore, the outcome was comedic and confusing in places. We did have an idea to make it funny but we wanted it to be mainly serious. In all we needed more time to make what we originally intended
·       Self evaluation – how did you manage your time? How could you manage your time more effectively?
With the time we had, we managed it well. If we had more then we could have made something more... asthetically pleasing.
·       What did you struggle with? E.g. Texturing, modelling, lighting, animation
We struggled with getting the materials above everything else. In the end we had to make do with a figure of a power ranger, 1 model of a zombie made by Zac and a figure of a monster. It turned out ok for what we had.
·       What did you find easy?
We found that the photographing and animating was the easiest to do.
·       How does your finished design compare to professional examples?
Our animation is way to uncut and rawr to even compare to a professional example. True that our animation has a certain amature charm to it but compared to a real stop motion... it just doesn't cut it.
·       What do other people think of your finished design?
Our peers seemed to enjoy it a lot. We had good reviews in the "Survey Monkey" survey we sent out. A few people even said they would pay to see it!
·       What could you improve upon?
If anything, resource management and gathering
·       If you were to do it again what would you do differently next time?
We would try to stick to the original design and use clay.

Stop Motion... not to plan

We set out to make the character eventually die. Unfortunately due to lack of materials and time, we settled for a walk onto the screen, crawling zombie and a big monster falling onto the crawler. It now ends with the character and the monster making up after the character helps the monster with his head that gets stuck. It's a confusing animation but we had set backs in development that led us to make it.

Stop Motion... The Plan

Our stop motion animation is going to have a slight comedic genre to it. It starts with the main character falling off a Motorbike and discovers some Zombies. A fight breaks out and he manages to fend off the zombies until one bites him on the ankle and he says "Looks like this is the end" followed by dramatic music. Then some random figure pops into the screen and yells "ugga bugga bugga!"  well that killed the mood...

Prezi for Trip

Unit: 33 Stop Motion on Prezi

New Art Style

This is a new drawing style I have been working on. It's slightly more cartoon style then manga. I got the inspiration from some drawings I saw on a vocaloid music video. I thought "I wonder if my characters would look good done in that style" and it turns out they do... well... Jack does anyway, I haven't drawn any others yet. Anyway I hope to try and develop this style more.

Vocaloid 3D poses - Kaito

This figure was premodeled but I rigged it myself. I put the model into a pose that looks like a fighting stance. It was quite difficult trying to get the fist as natural as possible but it turned out ok. The facial expression wasn't difficult to make because the Softwere I used had a prebuilt system for that kind of thing. I haven't learnt how to animate on the softwere yet but I will soon figure it out with practice... and youtube... anyway I plan to try to animate a practice drill of some kind in the near future. Right now, poses is all I can manage. After all, it's hard to master a new softwere

Stop motion inspired Flash Animation

I have made a flash animation of a little stick guy going Super Sayain and firing off a Kame Hame Hah. It's on a permenent loop and looks really good. It was difficult to get it going but once I figured it out and got started it was easy yet repetative. I want to make more flashes like this in the future. Unfortunately I cannot seem to show you the product.