Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Stop Motion: Slowly but Surely
The Process:
The process of Stop Motion is one that requires a lot of patience and an incredible eye for attention to detail. As part of this module I feel like Stop Motion is my forte and I prefer handling puppets/dolls etc rather than creating my animations digitally. Because of this, i have decided to focus my work mainly on the DragonFrame programme and not use after effects to edit any of my stop motion as i feel that other programmes such as Pro tools and even Dragon Frame itself, would provide a better template for me to start with.
The Sop Motion concept is one that has been around for many years, with famous animations such as Wallace and Gromit being entirely created through the use of stop motion. Obviously this process is a tedious one but with it comes great productions.
Because my idea is based around the idea of identity and child's nightmares, I have decided to create a nightmarish piece that inhabits all the fears tat children have. As stated in one of my previous posts, I will look towards the work of tim Burton and also draw inspirations from TV Shows such as American Horror story which in the title sequences, inhabit some rather unusual, macabre imagery. American Horror Freak Show in particular displays certain imagery that I would like to try and recreate within my stop motion. Imagery such as doll's heads being swapped between bodies, evil clowns with glowing eyes moving around etc. These images remind you of childhood and with them being warped and twisted, a nightmarish world is created.
My Stop Motion will not have a narrative as such but will be a compilation of images that represent the horrors within a children's nightmare.
The process of Stop Motion is one that requires a lot of patience and an incredible eye for attention to detail. As part of this module I feel like Stop Motion is my forte and I prefer handling puppets/dolls etc rather than creating my animations digitally. Because of this, i have decided to focus my work mainly on the DragonFrame programme and not use after effects to edit any of my stop motion as i feel that other programmes such as Pro tools and even Dragon Frame itself, would provide a better template for me to start with.
The Sop Motion concept is one that has been around for many years, with famous animations such as Wallace and Gromit being entirely created through the use of stop motion. Obviously this process is a tedious one but with it comes great productions.
Because my idea is based around the idea of identity and child's nightmares, I have decided to create a nightmarish piece that inhabits all the fears tat children have. As stated in one of my previous posts, I will look towards the work of tim Burton and also draw inspirations from TV Shows such as American Horror story which in the title sequences, inhabit some rather unusual, macabre imagery. American Horror Freak Show in particular displays certain imagery that I would like to try and recreate within my stop motion. Imagery such as doll's heads being swapped between bodies, evil clowns with glowing eyes moving around etc. These images remind you of childhood and with them being warped and twisted, a nightmarish world is created.
My Stop Motion will not have a narrative as such but will be a compilation of images that represent the horrors within a children's nightmare.
After Effects: Creating Animation
After Effects:
In order to develop our skills within the animation industry, we were given the task of creating a 1 minute sequence on the post production programme, After Effects.
In order to do this, we attended a series of lectures that taught us the basics of animating on the programme. Unfortunately at the beginning, I did not grasp the idea of After Effects at all and therefore planned not to use it for any of my animation and just stick with Stop Motion.
However, knowing that it was required to hand in some work on After Effects, I went into the MAC Lab after hours to expand my knowledge on the programme and try to create a short piece. Luckily through the help of my course mates and the tutorials on Youtube, I have been able to create a short piece, based on the idea of childhood nightmares thus relating to my idea around Identity.
I think that considering how worried I was when I first started using After Effects, the piece of work I have created shows how far I have come, even just with the help of the tutorials on Youtube. With respects to the tutors on the programme, I think personally it was better for me to be self taught as then I would get a full understanding of how to use the programme to my benefit rather than just producing work irrelevant to my project idea.
Here is a brief clip of the beginning of my After Effects creation...(full version will be available at a later date)
In order to develop our skills within the animation industry, we were given the task of creating a 1 minute sequence on the post production programme, After Effects.
In order to do this, we attended a series of lectures that taught us the basics of animating on the programme. Unfortunately at the beginning, I did not grasp the idea of After Effects at all and therefore planned not to use it for any of my animation and just stick with Stop Motion.
However, knowing that it was required to hand in some work on After Effects, I went into the MAC Lab after hours to expand my knowledge on the programme and try to create a short piece. Luckily through the help of my course mates and the tutorials on Youtube, I have been able to create a short piece, based on the idea of childhood nightmares thus relating to my idea around Identity.
I think that considering how worried I was when I first started using After Effects, the piece of work I have created shows how far I have come, even just with the help of the tutorials on Youtube. With respects to the tutors on the programme, I think personally it was better for me to be self taught as then I would get a full understanding of how to use the programme to my benefit rather than just producing work irrelevant to my project idea.
Here is a brief clip of the beginning of my After Effects creation...(full version will be available at a later date)
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