Well, I wish I would have spoken to someone about working with the web camera. I worked for a really long time on a piece. Had a few hundred frames done... then I tried to save the projects... and that's where things went wrong. All my work was deleted because the program crashed. I did several other 2 to 3 second animations, but only a few of them exported. Frame by Frame crashed a lot! I also had issues with the camera not focusing for a long time. I had to restart the program a few times to get the camera back to normal. This was a very frustrating ordeal I think I may want to stick to using my own equipment for this project.
I know the clips in the video seem really random. This is just a compilation of the few clips that I got to export. I'm really disappointed that I didn't get more to show. But at least now I know what not to do.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
after playing with all that nice stuff jill showed today in class, Im extra excited about getting started on this first project. the frame by frame program will make this project much easier too. Im still wanting to do the project below (I can actually get it done this weekend). For the first half of it, i going to work in the mini-lab. The rest will be shot in various locations. The first thing now is storyboarding, im really wanting this project to be a nice piece to add to my portfolio.
Rounding out my Idea
So i've decided to combine 2 of my ideas. The piece would start as a 2D animation:
a small boy is bored and alone on a page and wants to leave his small 2 Dimensional space . using the technique of erasing and adding i will animate the figure. the figure then rips himself off of the page and proceeds to explore. Using only stop motion and cut paper for the figure, he goes through several environments that are huge to him. After a long day of being damaged by the elements of the world, the boy happily goes back to his page.
A 2D figure wants to thrive in a 3-Dimensional world, but finds out that life is harder than he imagined.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
New Ideas! TOYS!
So, i was fishing around on the internet looking at different types of optical toys and I got some cool ideas. im wanting to do more with my hands now.
1. I was looking at a toy called "Changable charlie" this toy is a set of blocks, that when arranged, form a face. Each block has six different sides that will slightly change the face of the character. I was thinking of making my own toy this kind and making a stop motion video depicting the changing image.
I found this video that shows how to make something similar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xlVUG8qrWM&feature=related
2.Strobotop
3. Retroscope
4. Jacob's ladder
The Jacob's Ladder is a very old optical toy. It consists of a series of blocks held together by ribbons. When the topmost block is turned, the blocks appear to cascade down the strings. This would be a really cool toy to make in class and it wouldn't take too long. Each side would have a different picture on it that changes as the ladder is tilted.
this video shows how to make one out of paper.
1. I was looking at a toy called "Changable charlie" this toy is a set of blocks, that when arranged, form a face. Each block has six different sides that will slightly change the face of the character. I was thinking of making my own toy this kind and making a stop motion video depicting the changing image.
I found this video that shows how to make something similar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xlVUG8qrWM&feature=related
2.Strobotop
3. Retroscope
4. Jacob's ladder
The Jacob's Ladder is a very old optical toy. It consists of a series of blocks held together by ribbons. When the topmost block is turned, the blocks appear to cascade down the strings. This would be a really cool toy to make in class and it wouldn't take too long. Each side would have a different picture on it that changes as the ladder is tilted.
this video shows how to make one out of paper.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
One Frame at a time
1. My first idea is an animated drawing. Every part of it would be done by hand. I'd do it by hand with pencil, erasing and adding as i animate with single images. The content would be a transforming figure moving throughout a space.
2. Cut Paper Stop Motion
This video gave me the idea to hand draw backgrounds on paper and animate paper characters on top of it. I would make my characters with paper (similar to the way i would make them in photoshop for importing into after effects). Each body part would be cut out separately for animation. Facial expressions would be drawn by hand (or i'd make individual mouth cut outs) and would look like replacement animation. I'm leaning on this idea mostly, it's just something that I really want to try. I'd have a character in an outside setting interacting with a tree trying to knock off fruit.
3. Flip Book
A printed flip book with the character actions done in photoshop. This would be a very colorful flip book as opposed to the traditional line drawings. I'd use this bear character that I made last semester in photoshop. Its a story of a friendly bear trying to make friends.
2. Cut Paper Stop Motion
This video gave me the idea to hand draw backgrounds on paper and animate paper characters on top of it. I would make my characters with paper (similar to the way i would make them in photoshop for importing into after effects). Each body part would be cut out separately for animation. Facial expressions would be drawn by hand (or i'd make individual mouth cut outs) and would look like replacement animation. I'm leaning on this idea mostly, it's just something that I really want to try. I'd have a character in an outside setting interacting with a tree trying to knock off fruit.
3. Flip Book
A printed flip book with the character actions done in photoshop. This would be a very colorful flip book as opposed to the traditional line drawings. I'd use this bear character that I made last semester in photoshop. Its a story of a friendly bear trying to make friends.
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