Screenshot feedback

This is one of the comments i got on my video feedback, The person who wrote it said the quality let down my video alittle so next time i will consider using a better camera. the person also suggested to make the animation slower & more smoother, next time i'll take my time in making it so it looks professionally done.

This is a screenshot of the camera quality. 

On this comment i received i was told that my shadows kept appearing in the video, next time i should make sure the lighting is correct so my shadow will not appear, also i will also click the snapshot button after i have placed my things in the right place.

 here is a screenshot of my finger appearing in the frame of my movie. 

Stop Motion Animation Questions..

What is your own personal response to the animation you have been produced?
I think the final version of my video is very well made, it's creative and well-edited, it meets the requirements of the brief as it last 30 seconds long. Personally i think i did really well in the producing and editing the scenes are entertaining so yeah, i think my animation is really good & judging from the feedback i received from my peers they seemed to really like it, maybe even loved my piece of work, as i did making it, I'm really proud of this piece of work! 

What is your response to the feedback of your peers?
All my feedback from my peers was really positive they seemed to really enjoyed my piece of work. There was no negative feedback they did mention what i could do better if i was remaking it. but there was no major negatives. 

Based on this level of response, how could you have improved your production?
I think i should of worked on the colour correction whilst editing as some of the scenes in my video went from light to dark un-intentionally of course. Also i should of made sure you couldn't see my shadow or hand in certain shots. 

Will you make these improvements based on your peer response?
Definitely. If i remake the video i will definitely keep all the mistakes  pointed out by my peers under-wraps. + i wont edit the colours in editing as it didn't get a positive response the first time. 

Lip Sync Video.

Today we were asked to do a lip sync video, we had to cut out different mouths out of a image and make it look like it was saying 'Elephant' using iStop Motion and garageband. We had to fill out a dope sheet to make sure we got the timing right.

Finished Video!

The long anticipated wait is OVERRRRR, Here it is!

                                            

This is  my finished edited and cut animation i have been talking about in the last few blog posts, I finished my animation earlier than everyone else because i had a solid idea right from the beginning. i begin working on my research for my animation right away. i knew i wanted to do jaws because i love the film and i thought of a good twist idea that is similar to the movie but not quite the same. Once i had drew my storyboards i found the cut-out pictures i wanted to use for my cutout animation obviously, i saved them & resized them using photoshop. i then printed my images out then cut them out so i had all individual pictures. Once i had printed and cut all my images out i went online to find sound clips & the movie theme tune then i was ready to film i kept track of where i was up to by updating my blog every week just to show where i was, i made sure i print screened everything i was doing. When i was ready to film i borrowed a webcam from the college and filmed everything. once i had filmed i uploaded a soundless-unedited version of my video to my blog, i then added my video to iMovie and added titles & credits i then re-saved my video and then added the new version to garageband. i added sound clips i downloaded from the internet + the jaws theme tune over the entire video. once i had done this i was finished i added the finished version to my blog (above) but continued to update my blog! 

Part 2 (07/03/2012)

I have now finished adding my titles and credit's to my edited movie, I now have to add my project to a program called 'Garage Band' I'm going to use garage band to add in all the sound effects & theme songs i've downloaded from the internet to make my movie more interesting. I have a few screenshots to show you where i am at..

This is the first caption i added to my project, The Main title. I was originally going to use the official Jaws font but i decided the font i picked (above, Chalked) looked better it looks like the edges have been chewed at thus created a shark vibe. 

I darkened all my underwater clips using the after effects on iMovie, i did this because the underwater scene was too bright i wanted it to be darker as it is under the ocean. 

  

The end credits i added where obviously the names (mostly mine, i added the original theme tune owner John Williams name because i didn't create the theme tune, So i credited him) 

Because i had time in the lesson, i added my video to garage band once in garage band i added the sound clips i downloaded and the song to it. my video was basically finished 

This is my work when i was adding the sound clips on the parts i wanted them to appear in my video.

This is a quick snapshot of me previewing my video once all the soundclips and titles where in place, i was happy with how it looked so i saved my finished movie.

where im at 07/03/2013

In today's lesson i'm in the post production stage, As i mentioned in my previous update i was finished filming my 30 second video and i uploaded a un-edited version of my finished product. Today i'm going to add my video to iMovie and add sound & music! 

overview

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii :)

Today i filmed my whole cutout animation. i took a screenshot half way through to show you lovely people my effort, In the scene shown above the shark appears to be attacking the boat which i planned, i originally wanted to use 3 different shark pictures of them jumping out of the water, as i filmed this i thought it looked silly and kinda fake so i stuck to once shark image.. 

Because i finished i thought i'd add my unedited version on my blog to show you how it looks, I have yet to add music & sound effects to it then i'll re-upload it on here!!

god only knows research.

References:

http://www.onlineghibli.com/films.php
The link shows the amount of films they have made.

http://www.onlineghibli.com/cat_returns/
Shows the people who do the actual voice overs & the american voice over for the videos, it also displays the date when the movie came out, e.g - how long it is.

This is a book called 'Rough guide to anime' it contains similar text to 

End Of Lesson Post 2!

For my cutout animation i decided to remake a scene from the famous Jaws, i only decided to do a scene and not remake the whole movie because it would take too long. The scene I'm Remaking is the boat scene where the shark attacks the boat and makes the boat sink

Today I had printed all the backgrounds i needed to make my cutout animation video, I needed to make a storyboard explaining how i wanted my animation to turn out. I drew and explained what i wanted and what was happening in the scene. once i had finished the storyboard i went online to download the Jaws theme song & various sound effects i could use in my video to make it better. Once i had found the sound effects i wanted to use in my video i downloaded them then i was finished for today. next lesson i need to start making my animation video! :)

Research Idea's

Source

I wanted to do cut-out animation, to learn how to do cutout animation i watched a few video's on youtube. I watched a bunch of video's of people's work they've made and uploaded to youtube, i watch a bunch of tutorials of how people made there animation video. to get idea's for what i wanted to make for my project. 

These two video's are examples of what i want to do for my project. I want to make a cut out version of jaws. to achieve this I'm going to have cut out pictures of the ocean and shark and maybe some of my own images. I'm going to use iStop motion to make my animation possible. 

The clips above are from youtube, these types of animation are not the type i want to do i used these clips to show people a type of animation that i wanted to do, i want to recreate a scene from jaws 

At the end of my research i had a good idea of what i want to make for my little animation video. 

Pictures of my Idea.

For my animation idea I'm doing a cut-out remake of the movie Jaws. I'm making the scene with paper backgrounds & using iStop Animation to give the appearance it's moving. The images below are my idea.

(sorry for the faces, we're silly! :3)

The opening shows the bottom of the ocean with a great white shark swimming along. when he hears a strange noise from the ocean above. he swims up (offscreen)

We see a fishing boat just floating calmly on-top of the ocean, we suddenly see the sharks finn appear from under the water and goes back under undetected.

This is a picture of the boat that will appear in my animation. 

This is the First image of the shark you will see. 

This image you see is a picture of the shark jumping out of the water

This is the shark's fin you will see in my animation.

Picture 2 of the shark jumping out of the water. 

Because i've finished explaining what I'm going to do i'll leave you will silly picture of us. 

Adios.

Cell Based Animation

Cell Based Animation 

The video above shows Cell Based Animation. 

How Does It Work?

Cell Based Animation is where a person draws something on multiple pieces of paper and flicking through them really quickly to give them the illusion there moving. For example a flick book it is where the same picture has been drawn on every page but they moved slightly on every page, when you flick through the book it looks like the image on the page is moving. 

More examples of Cell Based Animation is to watch Disney Movie such as Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs. as they where hand-drawn and painted. 

The video above shows Snow White as a hand drawn image.