Whiteboard animation (5.4.12)
For our next project in Advanced Graphics we've started whiteboard animation. We split our class into three groups (I was with Eric Rizzotti and Josh Desrosiers) and built a small animation studio using canvas's, wood, and clamps. We set up our webcam and started off by making some short animations to get a feel for things. We made one animation about a man with a beard that keeps growing until it eventually makes a sweater. Next, we made an animation about a pair of glasses that grows a face and just gets weirder from there. Next we made an animation about a boy who is trying to eat some cheetos but they run away. After that, we made a story board of what we wanted our 30 second animation to be about. We decided to base our idea around a comic made by Eric Rizzotti. The story is that there are three friends hanging out and 1 gets struck by lighting and gets super strength, then another gets struck by lightning and gets the power to fly, then the last friend gets struck by lightning and he gets electrocuted and dies. We only got up to 16 seconds because the onion skin feature in Stop Motion Pro would not work and we couldn't go on. After we finished what we could of that project we made a few more short animations for fun including an orange doing the hoola hoop and a random animation where we used props such as scissors, a white board eraser, a hand, and an ipod. For each animation Eric Rizzotti drew all of the pictures and came up with all of the ideas, he was the creative mastermind. I worked the webcam, Stop Motion Pro, and edited along with directing. Josh tried to help.
Stop Motion Animation (with paper)
For our next project in graphics we will use the same program (stop motion pro 7) to take consecutive pictures of items that we make out of construction paper to make a short, 30 second, movie. My group chose to make a pizza. We cut out the different sized papers and used different techniques such as playing some of the slides in reverse to create the effect of rolling out dough, pouring the sauce on, sprinkling the cheese on, and adding toppings. We were planning on making the pizza appear to bake and cutting it up but when I was absent BEN FRECHETTE dismantled our animation station so we have not yet been able to finish. Hopefully, we will be able to finish it up and get the final product that we want before summer vacation.