Unit 33 task 1
Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own.
This technique is commonly used in Claymation and puppet-based animation. Objects are brought to life by figure’s motion and breaking them up by filming one frame of film per increment into increments.
Stop motion animation has been with us for a long time, almost as long as traditional filmmaking. Originally stop motion involved animating objects, which included the animated movement of any non-drawn objects such as toys, blocks or any rigid inanimate object you care to mention. This was quickly followed by cell animation. And then animators experimented with clay animation and puppet animation, which is what you may be familiar with in Wallace and Gromit, Fantastic Mr. Fox and so forth.
History
Some early examples of stop motion films and techniques can be seen in Fun In A Bakery Shop (1902) and in The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898). The Haunted Hotel was one of the most successful early stop animation movies that originally made everyone identify stop motion animation as a feature of filming. It was called "Modeling Extraordinary" In 1916, the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, began experimenting with clay stop motion. She released her first film in 1917, Romeo and Juliet. December of 1916 brought the first of Willie Hopkins 54 episodes of "Miracles in Mud" to the big screen.
Stop-motion has changed dramatically since the early 20th century. In fact, stop-motion is rarely used anymore. Only in children's TV shows do you see such effects, such as Gumby.
In the 90’s Will Vinton launched the first stop motion television series called The PJ’s with creator Eddie Murphy a famous African American actor. This show aired of Fox for three seasons and went on to winning an Emmy.
Nick Park is another individual who found fame creating form of animation. They were known as Wallace and Gromit. Wallace and Gromit became well known and went on to winning many awards and become a well notable film for children.
Formats and styles
With the development of digital 3D animation, animating a 3D character in a film has become much easier and faster, which is favored by the industry. 3D animation allows unreal characters to seem to be alive.
There are different types of stop motion techniques, formats and styles such as Claymation (Clay Animation). Claymation is a unique form of stop motion animation that uses figures made of clay. You would have to sculpt characters out of clay and also backgrounds set out of clay.
Another form of stop motion animation is puppet animation. It is a technique that incorporates the animation of still puppets. Similar to Claymation in many ways, the characters and sets are already made in full forms instead of being made while the animation is being shot.
Another form of stop motion animation is silhouette animation. Silhouette animation involves characters that are only visible as black silhouettes. This is usually accomplished by backlighting detailed cardboard cutouts, though other methods exist. It is partially inspired by shadow play.
Principles of animation
The set of animation principles were set and introduced by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas and is a guideline on creating outstanding animations to produce an illusion of characters and obeying the basic principle with exaggerate outcomes. There are 12 principles of animation and one of them is squash and stretch.
Squash and Stretch is the purpose of which is to give a sense of weight and flexibility to drawn objects. It can be applied to simple objects, like a bouncing ball, or more complex constructions, like the musculature of a human face. The most realistic and important aspect of squash and stretch is the fact that the volume does not change when it is squashed and stretched.
Anticipation is a principal that is used to prepare the audience of any action that is about to happen so that is adds effect and shows a more realistic side to it. For example if a character was to jump they would have to bend their knees to add anticipation and show more realism.
Staging is another principle that it is used to direct the audience’s attention to the important part of the scene.
Straight-ahead action and pose to pose. These are two different approaches to the actual drawing process. "Straight ahead action" means drawing out a scene frame by frame from beginning to end, while "pose to pose" involves starting with drawing a few key frames, and then filling in the intervals later.
Follow through and overlapping action means that loosely tied parts of a body should continue moving after the character has stopped and the parts should keep moving beyond the point where the character stopped to be "pulled back" only subsequently towards the center of mass and/or exhibiting various degrees of oscillation damping.
Slow in and slow out
This is the movement of the human body, which needs time to accelerate and also to slow. This makes the animation look more realistic. This is for movements between two extreme poses for the characters.
Secondary action
Adding secondary actions to the main action gives a scene more life, and can help to support the main action. A person walking can simultaneously swing his arms or keep them in his pockets, he can speak or whistle, or he can express emotions through facial expressions.
This technique is commonly used in Claymation and puppet-based animation. Objects are brought to life by figure’s motion and breaking them up by filming one frame of film per increment into increments.
Stop motion animation has been with us for a long time, almost as long as traditional filmmaking. Originally stop motion involved animating objects, which included the animated movement of any non-drawn objects such as toys, blocks or any rigid inanimate object you care to mention. This was quickly followed by cell animation. And then animators experimented with clay animation and puppet animation, which is what you may be familiar with in Wallace and Gromit, Fantastic Mr. Fox and so forth.
History
Some early examples of stop motion films and techniques can be seen in Fun In A Bakery Shop (1902) and in The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898). The Haunted Hotel was one of the most successful early stop animation movies that originally made everyone identify stop motion animation as a feature of filming. It was called "Modeling Extraordinary" In 1916, the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, began experimenting with clay stop motion. She released her first film in 1917, Romeo and Juliet. December of 1916 brought the first of Willie Hopkins 54 episodes of "Miracles in Mud" to the big screen.
Stop-motion has changed dramatically since the early 20th century. In fact, stop-motion is rarely used anymore. Only in children's TV shows do you see such effects, such as Gumby.
In the 90’s Will Vinton launched the first stop motion television series called The PJ’s with creator Eddie Murphy a famous African American actor. This show aired of Fox for three seasons and went on to winning an Emmy.
Nick Park is another individual who found fame creating form of animation. They were known as Wallace and Gromit. Wallace and Gromit became well known and went on to winning many awards and become a well notable film for children.
Formats and styles
With the development of digital 3D animation, animating a 3D character in a film has become much easier and faster, which is favored by the industry. 3D animation allows unreal characters to seem to be alive.
There are different types of stop motion techniques, formats and styles such as Claymation (Clay Animation). Claymation is a unique form of stop motion animation that uses figures made of clay. You would have to sculpt characters out of clay and also backgrounds set out of clay.
Another form of stop motion animation is puppet animation. It is a technique that incorporates the animation of still puppets. Similar to Claymation in many ways, the characters and sets are already made in full forms instead of being made while the animation is being shot.
Another form of stop motion animation is silhouette animation. Silhouette animation involves characters that are only visible as black silhouettes. This is usually accomplished by backlighting detailed cardboard cutouts, though other methods exist. It is partially inspired by shadow play.
Principles of animation
The set of animation principles were set and introduced by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas and is a guideline on creating outstanding animations to produce an illusion of characters and obeying the basic principle with exaggerate outcomes. There are 12 principles of animation and one of them is squash and stretch.
Squash and Stretch is the purpose of which is to give a sense of weight and flexibility to drawn objects. It can be applied to simple objects, like a bouncing ball, or more complex constructions, like the musculature of a human face. The most realistic and important aspect of squash and stretch is the fact that the volume does not change when it is squashed and stretched.
Anticipation is a principal that is used to prepare the audience of any action that is about to happen so that is adds effect and shows a more realistic side to it. For example if a character was to jump they would have to bend their knees to add anticipation and show more realism.
Staging is another principle that it is used to direct the audience’s attention to the important part of the scene.
Straight-ahead action and pose to pose. These are two different approaches to the actual drawing process. "Straight ahead action" means drawing out a scene frame by frame from beginning to end, while "pose to pose" involves starting with drawing a few key frames, and then filling in the intervals later.
Follow through and overlapping action means that loosely tied parts of a body should continue moving after the character has stopped and the parts should keep moving beyond the point where the character stopped to be "pulled back" only subsequently towards the center of mass and/or exhibiting various degrees of oscillation damping.
Slow in and slow out
This is the movement of the human body, which needs time to accelerate and also to slow. This makes the animation look more realistic. This is for movements between two extreme poses for the characters.
Secondary action
Adding secondary actions to the main action gives a scene more life, and can help to support the main action. A person walking can simultaneously swing his arms or keep them in his pockets, he can speak or whistle, or he can express emotions through facial expressions.
Task 2
Working title: Extinction – the final minutes
This task involves us making a for of stop motion animation with clay, Lego, images etc. I used Clay to make my stop motion animation. It is a short 10-15 second clip that shows a crossbreed of genre and extinction of dinosaur’s and how a comedy source of extinction came upon them.
My target audience is generally teens up to late 20’s due to the fact it contains some bad language that older people generally take offence to it and a younger audience might be more relaxed about the crude words.
I suppose with using this sort of sense of humor will help me get to my target audience and help get view and good reviews from my target audience and so I will be bale to draw a larger audience and expand.
A short synopsis – it is about 2 dinosaurs that are arguing and over who gets the last fruit on the tree. They use very crude words and speak very violently towards each other. All of a sudden a meteorite hits the close to the dinosaurs, which give them a moment to stop arguing, and repent on the argument they had just had. This ends all living dinosaurs and drives them to extinction.
I hope to make my audience laugh and bring out their comedy side out.
Long synopsis – it was the age of the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs roamed the earth in peace. Well mostly in peace. 2 dino’s named Billy and Garry were arguing. It all began when they both went to eat at simultaneous timing when they both reached the last fruit on the tree they began to verbally abuse each other. As they move closer and closer to going head on they get more verbally abusive with every step. A caveman attacks the dinosaurs for no reason only to be crushed. This ends up making the dinosaurs even more abusive and when they see a fireball approaching earth they begin to repent their arguments towards each other.
This task involves us making a for of stop motion animation with clay, Lego, images etc. I used Clay to make my stop motion animation. It is a short 10-15 second clip that shows a crossbreed of genre and extinction of dinosaur’s and how a comedy source of extinction came upon them.
My target audience is generally teens up to late 20’s due to the fact it contains some bad language that older people generally take offence to it and a younger audience might be more relaxed about the crude words.
I suppose with using this sort of sense of humor will help me get to my target audience and help get view and good reviews from my target audience and so I will be bale to draw a larger audience and expand.
A short synopsis – it is about 2 dinosaurs that are arguing and over who gets the last fruit on the tree. They use very crude words and speak very violently towards each other. All of a sudden a meteorite hits the close to the dinosaurs, which give them a moment to stop arguing, and repent on the argument they had just had. This ends all living dinosaurs and drives them to extinction.
I hope to make my audience laugh and bring out their comedy side out.
Long synopsis – it was the age of the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs roamed the earth in peace. Well mostly in peace. 2 dino’s named Billy and Garry were arguing. It all began when they both went to eat at simultaneous timing when they both reached the last fruit on the tree they began to verbally abuse each other. As they move closer and closer to going head on they get more verbally abusive with every step. A caveman attacks the dinosaurs for no reason only to be crushed. This ends up making the dinosaurs even more abusive and when they see a fireball approaching earth they begin to repent their arguments towards each other.