Animation

Stop Motion Animation

I was set the the task to create a stop motion animation using magazines as cut outs to create a storyline stop morion animation; I worked alongside Denis to create our animation above.

I believe that people use cut out animation as its believed to be the easiest form of animation but has a disadvantage of not being able to view the cut out image in 3D, which makes it hard to include a turn in cut out animation. A way of making still objects look as if they are speaking to other characters is by cutting the mouth and introducing slight movement (up and down). Another disadvantage of using cut out animation is finding relevant images for the story line you have created, but this could be very costly depending on how imaginative your work creation is but also very time consuming, as you will have to cut out the images including all the detail so that the animation is interesting.

What will i do differently? I would spend more time creating more visual mood boards so that we could have had a solid story line, I would also develop research of magazines and what specific context they have so that I would know what sort of images I could use for my cut out animation.

Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge is a British photographer who is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion, which uses several cameras to capture motion.

This image is showing Eadweard's most famous motion capture using the zoopraxiscope, which is a series of images captured on a large camera which uses glass plates in a line which is triggered by a thread once the horse passes by. The images are then copied in a form of silhouettes onto a disk and is viewed in the zoopraxiscope.  

I was able to re- create my own version of the Eadweard Muybridge technique using the software "iStopMotion" by capturing each individual frame and playing them back in a zoopraxiscope motion.

Firstly: you open iStopMotion and set up what you will be doing/using in your animation.

Secondly: you select the red button every time a movement is being made (trying to make the movement as close as possible)

Thirdly: after all the images have been captured you press the play button to show the images altogether showing the animation.

Finally you export the animation by going to file and selecting export and then changing the video format for better quality.

This animation has been captured using 12 frames per second.

My Animation