Final Post (Animation Assignment)

Animation Assignment

For my animation assignment I would like to do my animation using Lego. Animations that I like in Lego are shown bellow:



Doctor Who New Beginnings 1

NNN Chapter 1 New Beginnings

Minilife TV Episode 1 Dummy Demolition

Call Of Duty MW3 The Good The Bad and The Noob

Some scenes I would like to make in lego are:

The Mind Palace scene from Sherlock Season 2 Episode 2: The Hounds Of Baskerville 

Sherlock Season 1 Episode 3: The Great Game 

I would want to to the stand off at the end of the clip

I would like to do my own doctor who regeneration 

From my ideas I have decided to my own doctor who regeneration. I decided not to do the mind palace scene because I thought it would be to hard to accomplish. Here are some of the effects I want to use for the regeneration on my animation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUrTnH0hiKk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EiODbZq8eM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33wW4Ua8TqM

Proposal 

Ideas 

The animation will be my own regeneration from Doctor Who. I will use lego to create it. It is called model based animation.

Resources 

For resources I will need different male lego hair, heads, bodies e.g. suits and legs. I will also need a lightsaber handle and different coloured gems.  For backgrounds I will need:

For sounds  I want to use part of this track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MolrVEr5M20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMlle0gBZ7Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE0tvr4msfg

Figures

These are my two figures old doctor (top photo0 and the newly regenerated doctor (bottom photo)

20/3/14

I have selected the audio from a video I want to use and I will use garageband to pick the bits I want 

27/3/14

I have created my first couple of seconds

24/4/14

I have created the first scene of my animation though it was hard to set it up and align it. I need to add to add my second scene along with sound and effects.

1/5/14


I have finished my animation. I need to add sound effects

8/5/14

http://padlet.com/ethan_turley/r1br5p7fuc72 - Here is my padlet wall


This is the audio from garageband. Some of the techniques I used was fade in's and out's on some of the music tracks. I used this on the slider. To edit the music I used the music levels and added points on the line and when I set the line to gradually decline the music would fade out.

Finished Movie 

Here is my finished movie 

Time Lapse Animation

Time-lapse Animation

Time lapse animation when you set a camera to go off once every 10 minutes when you have 500 frames that would take 5000 minutes to capture but because it takes 25 frames a second it would only be 20 seconds of animation. Even though it doesn't take long to set up a time lapse animation it would take a long time to make sure that the camera goes off at the exact same time and it takes longer to do a time lapse animation than any other animation. 

Red Bull Can Time lapse 

This is a time lapse of someone drawing a red bull can. The video is 3:45 or 225 seconds and the frame rate is 25 FPS then 225 x 25= 5625 frames to take for the video. If he took a picture every 10 seconds then 5625 x 10 = 56250 then divide 56250 by 60 seconds which equals 937 minuets.                                              

Doctor Who Time lapse Animation

Modern Animation

Modern Animation 

Modern times brought about the introduction of new ways to create animation. One of these techniques was cel based animation. Cell based animation is where a series of drawings is created each one being slightly different. They are then photographed and 25 different pictures are needed for 1 second of footage. This equals 8000 pictures for 30 seconds of material.

Family Guy is famous animation in modern times which uses cel based animation. This show is mainly    
aimed at viewers who are in their late teens and older. Family Guy was created by Seth McFarlane in 1999.  

Adventure Time

Adventure Time is a recent successful cartoon which uses cel based animation. The show is aimed teenagers but has hidden jokes that are appeal to an older audience. It was created in 2010 by Pendleton Ward.

Morph 

Morph is show that uses clay based animation which involves making clay models and photographing the characters one frame at a time. In the UK we use the standard 25 frames per second while the US go up to 30 frames per second. The Morph Files was produced by Aardman Animations.

Blues Clues

Blues Clues was a children's show that used cut out animation. It was created in 1996 for Nickelodeon television in America. Cut out animation is when characters are created on paper and then cut out. Cut out animation also uses the standard of 25 frames per second to photograph. 

Practise Animation

Practise Animation - Godzilla

These two animations are made by me and Marcus. I designed the tank to use in the animation. Marcus  and I made the Godzilla for the animation. I enjoyed making these models.

Tank

 Godzilla

Background

The animation is filmed on had I Stop Motion. The settings for filming had to be Lage Widescreen with the speed being12 FPS. When you move make a new scene an onion skin is created. Finally slow is good.

Animation before Titles and credits 

I have produced a stop motion animation about Godzilla. Overall I felt the project went well because of the well designed models we made. One thing I would improve is the background and the set.

Adding Sound

To add sound to my movie I had to do a few thing:

1. Collect the sounds I used

2. Get all the right sounds on the right levels 

3. Add fade in and  outs to the music to where I want them

Some problems that I found was getting the sound levels right for all the effects so I could here what I wanted 

Final Movie

Evaluation

Overall I found this project went well because I found I stop motion easy to use because I have used it before and I knew how to use it. When editing my sound effects I found some problems with the sounds but I got them sorted out in the end. If I could change something I would change the background.

Animation 1960-1970's

US Animation

Wacky Racers

Wacky Racers was a cell based animation done by Hannah Barbara in 1968. The show was famous for its villain Dick Dastardly and his sidekick Mutely. A general episode would have comical antics as races take place to the finish lane.

Top Cat 

Top Cat was done by Hannah Barbara in 1961. The show was famous for the main character T.C (Top Cat). A typical episode was T.C and his ally cats trying to make money and invade Officer Dibble. The show is based off Bilko a 50's TV show.It was a cell based animation

Road Runner

Road Runner was a cell based animation done by Wanner Brothers in 1965 about the main character Wile Coyote and his antics trying to catch the Road Runner but fail.

UK Animation

The Clangers

The Clangers was a model based animation done by Oliver Postgate in 1969. The show is about the adventures of the clangers with the characters on the moon. 

Trumpton

Trumpton was a model based animation in 1967 done by Oliver Postgate and was about the adventures in the town

Bagpus

Bagpus was a  model based animation done by Oliver Postgate in 1974 and it is about the adventures of Bagpus and his friends in a shop.

Animation 1930's - 1950's

Animation 1930's - 1950's

Disney

Disney in the 1930's started to make feature length animations which included film techniques to make it like a movie. Snow White was first successful animation movie.

Fleischer 

A rival of Disney was Fleischer which made animations for an adult audience. The early Popeye and Betty Boop animations were for adults with drug references.

Fred Quimby 

Fred Quimby worked for the Hannah & Barbara Corporation wo did Heaven Puss (bellow) and did other classic Tom and Jerry.

This was done using cell based animation this is done by do a drawing then a clear sheet of plastic is put on top of it and then you paint the outline of the drawing then you take off the sheet of plastic and paint out the back and then you photograph it then you go back to the drawing and trace around it with another sheet of plastic but with small differences then you paint it and photograph it again. This must be done 25 times for every second of animation.

Art Clokey

Gumby was created by Art Gumby. He became famous for mainly using clay models.   

TV Cartoons From The 50's

History Of Animation

History Of Animation

George Melies

George Melies was a french illusionist and filmaker who accidentally discovered a substitution stop trick in 1896 when he was filming a traffic scene with a omnibus but the camera jammed and when it started again he started it again and filmed the was a herse in the scene so it looked like the bus had transformed into a herse. There are just over 200 films left out of 400 because most of them were melted down to silver for bullets and the plastic for shoe heels in WW1. For his own films he made his own sets and sometimes starred in is own films.

One of his famous animations was called Voyage to the moon

Winsor McCay 

Winsor McCay was a famous american cartoonist and a animator. His famous work was his comic strip Little Nemo and his animated film Gertie The Dinosaur. For his animations he used giant sheets of paper to draw on and hand colou each of his drawings. Also in his animations he made his cartoons be able to stretch and distort because he had such an imagination.

Lotte Reiniger

Lotte Reiniger was a german silhouette animator who used black paper which was cut out. She also cut out separate parts for arms and legs to make them look like they are moving. One of her famous pieces was Prince Achmed.

Walt Disney 

Walt Disney made Steamboat Willie in 1928 which was the first to use sound which paved a way to do new styles of animation.