0891 - Dan Qureshi
Experimenting Animation
We started the project with a group, I then decided to produce some experimentations with different types of animation. As a group we used 5 different types of styles in total, all of the them are shown below.
Sand Art
The first activity we used sand animation, I personally believe we did a good job for a first go- considering we haven't used sand before. However even though we had a few camera shakes- we managed to produce the basic principles of animation and a finished video that conformed the persistence of vision, where one picture is shown every two frames.
Pixilation
In the second activity we tested pixilation, this style is animation of real people, photographing every movement. I think that we did this style successfully- we did a great job to combine two sequences of animation and making it into one scene. In our first section we used me getting off a bench, then photograph all the movements I did and got a fluent animation. The shot conformed to the anticipation principle of animation as my hands went backwards behind my head after I stretched. Also in the video the group was able to produce a flying animation- this was carried out by using a layout of the floor tiles to make each shot equal. It showed the staging and timing principles of animation.
Small Objects
The next activity was small objects, we
decided to choose small cars for the experiment. We were trying to fulfil the
squash and stretch and secondary action principles. I think that it wasn't the
most successful, but we understood what we had to do to improve our effort. But
overall the finished video look like it had been done well.
Dough
In this activity we used dough, We realised that this was our most unsuccessful video due to a lack of ideas and execution. Our group struggled and only managed to shoot about 10 frames, making this video very short. The objective of this activity was to create an under water scene with sea creatures moving around.
Cut Out
The final activity we did was cut out. We
managed to create a basic scene which had secondary action and follow
through/overlap. I think that we produced a simple but successful video.
Overall I believe that all the animations
we produced were useful in helping us through the research stage of animation.
We managed to make each video that had some sort of principles of animation and
all followed the rule of the persistence of vision.
