To My Music...

I realised that so far I have not done any experiments along to my music, so this one here is just that. I have used drawings that relate to my song and that I want in my final..

           


This animation is 245 photographs, at frame rate 8 and is less than 10 seconds really. I think I've managed to get the timing quite nicely with the music, although I know its certainly not perfect.
 I did however manage to get the 'la la la' bit in good time HOWEVER blogger would not let me upload a quicktime video onto here, so I had to save one as a mpeg4 as well, and for some reason when I watch it back the sound is out. Not sure why this happened. It feels like blogger sped up my video as well.. :/

I think this is my best one so far, I would also like to try and do one that shows my hand drawing it as well.

Bongos... attempt 1

I thought I would do a little experiment of my actual animation, as I think I will start off with the bongos, I tried it out. To make sure I managed to get them in proportion, as it's hard when drawing bit by bit with no outline or anything, I used tracing paper for this one. I drew them out on a white sheet of paper first, and masking taped it at one end, and then did the same with the tracing paper on top, but at the other end.
This way I can have the paper underneath the tracing as I draw each bit, and then just flip it out from underneath to take the photo. It was slightly tedious but I think it worked quite well.

I really love this, but they do seem to keep coming out a bit blurred at the end, and they just look quite bad. I think that if I managed to do it all using After Effects then it would look a lot more neat, bold and professional.

For this one, I took 125 photographs all together, and used the frame rate of 14.

I need to get help with using After Effects to create the illusion of the lines being drawn, as when I tried with referring to the work shop and my notes, I think I  missed something out as it does not work. GET HELP.

TOAST

This is just another little experiment I did. Expanding my new found love for STOP MOTION. It was breakfast time and I was getting in the frame of mind to get on with my work!!

I love how stop motion can make the most simple things EXCITING!! Although for some reason, my animations look fine on After Effects when I'm making them, but then when I open them in realplayer or windows media player, they seem a bit small and slightly distorted. Maybe I have it set on AE as a small composition .. check it out.

In a previous project I had bin working with purple ink in a jar of water, taking photos of it as it flows down through the water... I took lots simultaneously as the ink was moving, thinking it would make a cool animation if I ever got round to putting it together! I just came across these photos again and thought., perfect timing.

This is the shorter of the two, it would of bin better if I'd of got lots more photos and had it going on for longer, like the next one.

This is more good practice for me for using After Effects, I feel like I'm getting a lot more confident with using it, although there is still a lot for me to learn! I feel like I can use this program for most simple things by myself.

shadows...

On a trip to Rufford Park with  my Mum and my Sister, I got a bit carried away with taking photos of our shadows! So I got us all to put our hands up and I took the photos as they moved they're arms. 

A lot of the weren't quite lined up as my hand started dropping due to the wait of the camera as I was only using one hand. I thought it would be fun to add some music and this song came on while I was editing the photos so I thought it was funny...

Also it's not that long as it's very repetitive, as I have pretty much used the same sequence of photos over again to make it longer than it was, as slowing it down wouldn't have worked.

... in a bit of a rush.

This is just a little animation I have done on my bedroom wall. But to be honest it was quite rushed but I felt like I had to do some more experiments. Although this is a bit messy and not particularly planned out, it is another attempt at my chosen method.

Yes I know it sucks. And for some reason now replaying it is also like the other one I did on brown paper, I did not use flash for this one though. Hmmm... Maybe I would be much better using After Effects to do my animation. I need to try it out.

 I think just start to get on with making my actual final animation... So I need to find out if using After Effects is a lot better, as not all of my experiments were crap... Maybe one more try out.

This is another quick crappy animation that I did, trying out using text. I think it sucks but its part of my experimentation and progress anyway...

I think it's a bit slow looking at it now, and also my writing is horrible and messy.. I need to stop trying to rush through this and take my time on things.

... Ojos de Brujo

My Dad has this amazing dvd with an animation that is the video to a song by Ojos de Brujo.. He watched it again recently and showed me it as I'm doing an animation. 

I absolutely love this! I think it's amazing that it must of taken so many drawings and everything turns into something else.. it's so clever, and goes perfectly with the song. I also like how at some points later on in the song the animation is slightly like how I want to do mine, with lines connecting and leading onto other things ect.. 

Another experiment...

This is just another kinda crappy experiment of the method I am currently planning to use for my final animation. I thought I would try out what it would look like on brown paper in white pen, as white stands out against slightly darker colours.

I thought I would incorporate drums into this so its actually relevant to my storyboard.

For some reason here on blogger the video looks like TERRIBLE quality and its all blurry..
The light is a bit funny, as it was dark when I was making it, I had the artificial light in my room and also the flash on the camera as it took the photos. This has created an odd colouring that changes nearer to the bottom on the frame. This may have something to do with the bad quality appearance of it.

NOTE TO SELF: do not use flash when taking the photos. must photograph during the day with the natural light.