My original idea was my hands creating a clay elephant and the world around it piece by piece. Then the elephant would get lonely and I would try to cheer it up. Then I would destroy the world to make a baby for the elephant. The idea I choose was not really that similar except for concept. The idea I choose was an elephant builds itself out of clay and then accidently rolls over a snake eggs. The snake becomes sad and the elephant try to cheer up the snake. The elephant cannot cheer up the snake so it uses it body to make baby snakes for the snake. The reason for this change was not being able to use my hands and film and it will take more time to do an animation of that quality.
I made this animation by using the app Stop Motion to take pictures or frames and put them together to create an animation. I used clay to make the actual characters and used some tape, a ruler, and a pencil case thing to make a stand for my phone so it can take pictures for the claymation. The most difficult things for me during this process was using clay for the characters and lighting consistency. The clay dried up very fast, cracked and crumbled, and was hard to manage. Those are some of the reasons why clay was difficult to work with and at times made me somewhat frustrated with it not cooperating. Also I had to film this over the course of 3-4 days so the lighting changed a lot each day, so when I filmed it the animation looked a little inconsistent. I found the part with the elephant morphing into a ball to be the successful part of my animation. The reason I found this most successful was I felt the transformation was very fluid and smooth. I spent the most time on the filming and moving of the models into position for each frame. But I did spend a lot of time on the making of each character. I feel like I spent the least time on making and drawing out the story, I just sort of went with the flow because I already had a basic story in my head. Some of the Principles of Animation I used were squash and stretch when I morphed the elephant into a ball and it moved, anticipation when the elephant accidentally ran over the snakes eggs, slow in and slow out when the elephant started moving as ball. Then appeal because I felt like the characters were simple yet expressenate and charming at the same time. Timing, I used more frames to create solower actions when the elephant turned into a ball to emphasize what was happening. I also used exaggeration to make the whole animation feel more cartoony especially with the character’s appearance. I feel like I learned a lot about animation during the assignment. I learned that animation takes a long time to be quality and that you need a lot of time and patience for it. I also learned to probably not use clay for another claymation because of just how dried up it can get. Then I learned what it takes to make an animation and how to make a successful animation via The Principles of Animation. Lastly I learned I need to be more patient and dedicated if I want to produce a successful quality animation.
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1. Why did you pick the product you did?
A= I picked this product because I felt like I would actually use this when I'm in school and I would be cool to use something I made. 2. How did you design your piece? Tell me your process. A= First I started brainstorming on a blank sheet of paper, then I measured my eraser, next I started drawing my design in photoshop, then I added the colors and the rest of the designs, letters, and symbols, then finally I printed it and wrapped it around my eraser. 3. What is most successful about your design? A= The most successful things about my design in my opinion was the drawing of the elephant, the "JUMBO EDITION" text, and the colors which really emulate a circus. 4. If you could change anything about the piece, what would you do and why? A= The thing I would change the most about this piece would be the measurements for the wrap that goes on the eraser. The reason I would change this is because it came out not the right size, but we were able to fix that.
1) What problems did you overcome during this project and how? The problems I overcame in this project were finding the right animal pictures to merge and working with the new tools. I had some trouble finding the right pictures that were good qualuuuuuuuity and could be merged easily. The new tools like the clone tool and the color replacement tool were sort of hard to get the hang of but eventually I got it. 2) If you could change anything about the piece what would you do? The thing that I would change would be the animals I choose the merge. I don't really like the fox-puffin at all and I like the honeybee-lion more. 3) Explain your animal? What is their name/species? How did you come up with this idea?' This animal is a puffin mixed with a fox. The name of the species is a Pox and I came up with this idea simply by doing a google search and put the two images together, since they were facing the same direction and I wanted to cross a bird and a mammal.
Pros: It was successful in getting the character to turnaround in a full 360 loop. It looked a lot like kirby.
Cons: The turnaround could have been more consistent, I could have added more stuff like legs or arms, and I could have added expressions. Process: I started with drawing out each frame on photoshop, then I colored it and put them in order, after that I used the video generator in photoshop to put them into a video so that it looks like he is turning. Pros: I really like the use of the state colors and the outline of the two animals.
Cons: I feel like it was a bit plain or simple,like a could have added something else Process: I used Adobe Photoshop to fill in the state fair logo with the state colors and then I just traced a picture of a cow and chicken and then filled them. Pros: I feel like the animation pretty smooth considering it was my first time. I also like the way the little guy moves and flies of the page. Cons: I drew the stick figure too close to the edge of the page making some of the animation hard to view. Process: I just kept drawing the stick figure over and over again to simulate it moving when I flipped the notepad. What was your theme and why did you pick it? A= The theme is dinosaurs because of a doodle that I did on my original sketch that I really liked so I decided to make it my pattern. Of the 3 patterns you’ve made, which one is your favorite and why? The one with all 5 of the designs, because I feel like when they are together they look better than just one or two. What did you find difficult about this project? The most difficult thing about this project was learning and figuring out how to do this project. I definitely had to get help to do some of the stuff and also didn't know how to do certain things. What would you recommend to someone starting this project? To ask for help, watch the videos, and be patient.
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