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Animation

Tuesday 9th November
Today was our first lesson in animation. I was slightly disappointed as I had hoped we would be doing drawing animation but instead we were doing stop motion. Although it was quite fun. Me and my group focused on making it appear as though our actor was flying around. I see the importance of this style of animation and would love to use it in the future

To achieve our desired effect, I would shout 3,2,1 Jump and on the jump our actor would jump while a crewmate took the photo. To be safe we took two photos for each position. Once we took the photo, our actor would then move slightly. Once all these photos are put together it should then give the illusion our actor is flying around in mid air. This is a method of stop animation as each position is a singular photo and those photos are then put together in order to give the illusion of movement.

Tuesday 16th November

In lesson today we worked on editing our stop motion animations from last week. We used a tactic called shooting doubles where each shot lasted for two frames, which allowed for the smooth look with less photos. To do this we had to change the timeline in premiere and adjust the frame settings. Once we had done this it was a simple matter of placing the clips in the sequence and cutting any shots where the actors feet had touched the ground. We then did some basic colour correction to fix minor details, and finally we reversed and repeated the last scene of the actor taking his glasses off so that it looked like he took them off and then put them back on. Overall, it’s been really useful to learn this way of creating stop motion and I’m hoping I can incorporate it in some future projects.

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