Animation
There was a continuation to this project when we started back and we could make a scarf, wallpaper or an make an animation and I grabbed the oppurtunity of doing an animation using i stop. I am a huge fan Wallace and Gromit, Creature comforts and Morph etc.... for me theres nothing more thrilling then watching something come to life, and now I finally get to make my own story come life.
I got to work on my story board so that I knew what camera angles I wanted and how much scene was going to be in the background. And after doing that I got started on making my characters and making the set which was really exciting.
I had a look at Wallace and Gromit behind the scenes to see how big there sets were and blimey there amazing. To think how much hard work would have gone in to making it all.....they truly are perfectionists.
My behind the scene is quite small and lets face it...its not a patch on the Wallace and Gromit scenes but I new I was mainly going to be focusing on filming the characters so I didn't want to make a massive detailed set that would have taken up the time I needed to start filming! I new from doing the story board that most of my scenes will be close up but I think if I ever get the chance to do another short little animation again, I would work harder on putting extra added detail in the background because it's worth doing!!
Even though I knew using i stop was going be time consuming and even more so with it being the first i stop animation I've ever done, it really test your patients because if you do something wrong you have to start again. And I really appreciate Wallace and Gromit a whole lot more now because there are so many little things that can go wrong, so you have to make sure everything is perfect before each click. And you also have to be very prepared before filming with plasticine as it melts under the hot lights, so you have to know its movements and try not to handle too much as you could lose its form and it may end up looking squished.
I haven't finished my animation just yet as I need to pop it on after affects to add sound etc to it but I thought I'd pop a few clips.
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