Stop motion session :)

In todays session We were in the stop motion suite. Using children's toys to create movement with the characters. In groups of 5 we made a stop motion animation on a photography set up with a backing light, using a programme called I can animate. 

We took each movement of the characters as a single shot and set it so that the previous shot was faintly visible whilst moving the character into the next position so that we could create a smooth animation. We then saved it but because of the programme it took the colour from the video and saved it as Black and White. but on the colour video the way the light hit the pig in the end shot was very powerful and effective, and helped to show the Pigs victory. 

When doing my final animation I will certainly consider lighting and the way it connects to the characters and scenes of the animation.

My brother saw this video and said he liked it because It didn't make sense and that it reminded him of the cravendale advert on the telly.

Rayograms session.

I Started of by using a ruler to test the effects that you could get from using
Rayograms, Using a small tester strip of paper I changed the light exposure
at each centimetre on the ruler, And then using this tester strip I could then
see what the light exposure needed to be on a final image of the ruler, and then
using the same exposure time I photographed the feathers aswell.

Out of the Inkwel

This is a silent amination series produced using a rotascope by Max Fleischer.

I like the way he draws the character and makes it look like its coming to life through motion and I like the way he draws back into his animated character and adds to it to create scenes and movement.

First attempt at stop animation.

I put a white board up and set up a tri-pod with a camera and drew a little animation on the whiteboard, Each extra thing I drew I took a shot on the camera and then when the image was complete I uploaded them to imovie and put together a short 42 second animation changing the running time and then added and edited the timing if the music.

Researching ways of animating

Uses a wheel.

Draws and animates his drawings.

Feeling the music.

After the first session, I came away with a few starting points that I jotted down in a
spider diagram and a few words that were collected as a group.

I then listened to the music again alone in a quiet environment with no distractions
and made another spider diagram of all the things, feelings, emotions, colours ect
that the music made feel.

Connection that takes you somewhere.

After the group session I researched some things that related imagery and music in clever ways. 

I watched Pink Floyd- The wall because it interesting how the wall builds up around the title (The wall)
& Derek Jarmins videos are a blue screen and he then tells a story that is
very therapeutic and interesting because although there is no Image there the story
begins to make you picture your own image of how you imagine something to look.

Derek Jarmin- Blue

Secondary Research.

After the lecture on 'The nature of Art motion' I started to look at ways that Art and music relate.

I began to look into 50's and 60s' Pop art and to look at the way Modern album covers
use pop art style to create a certain feel for their music type.

I researched Julian Opie, Who's work is very similar to Pop art. He designed
the Album cover for Blur that featured the band members In a very cartoon
Andy Warhol style.

I continued this research by linking it to moving imagery and the illusion of movement
from still images. I looked at Expressionism and Futurism because the colours used and
the bright overlapping shapes give a feel of movement. 

Franz Marc is a good example of an artist who creates movement in his still paintings
through shapes and colours.