This morning we had the opportunity to scan our splatter prints that we did last week, I lines it out in some black pen so that it would stand out more. The example i have only shows the bottom half of what i did as it was on a large piece of paper.

I did add in some pen drawn lines to look like finer ink lines. I wanted  to do a dark piece, the eyes have tears of black and is bleeding black blood so intemperate darkness within and not being able to hold back.

Tim Burton is known for his dark, gothic and eccentric horror fantasy films. He uses 3D and 2D animation as well as stop motion animation for his works. The most popular film that he’s done is ‘The nightmare before Christmas’ that’s made up from stop motion animation and clever editing to make the illusion that it’s animated.

Last week we planned to book the music studio and so our own music to sia breath me instrumental but our plan for the song changed. Izzy has written a song that hopefully this week we can get or with our animation. For our animation I managed to compose a story board to how it would all plan out. For this we will need to book the studio as the first scene is inside and our last scene is outside with trees. How we, I am worried about how we’ll give the illusion that someone is hanging. I won’t be in the photos as I’ll be just helping by telling them how to position themselves and where to go and facial expressions etc, I’m not sure if Alfie or Izzy are going to be the model for this, whoever it is will need to 100% portray what I’ve put on the story board or none of my ideas will be bough to life.

Stop motion is similar to time laps in that you’re taking a series of single images at a certain international, but instead of shooting something that’s moving on its own, like clouds in a time laps, you’re moving the subject itself and animating it. You’re really shooting a series of of still images that are played back at a fast rate, mostly 24fps, for a minute production it’ll be very time consuming.

Moving one that the camera is still in the same place is very important to get a well done result . For our stop motion production we are doing someone that’s eventually leads themselves into suicide as almost a suicide awareness animation, there will be multiple frames as well as we’re going to add some pen drawn animation on top of that for more effect.

Camera shake.

Getting this result in your photo is very easy and simple. you don’t need a tripod so this is one of the easier methods to do. There are 3 different types of shake, There’s up and down, side to side and around . both give the same effect but some will better with particular images than some. We did some today in the studio, here’s an example of the shake. mise-en-san. in this piece shows the pastel colours blending in nicely with the centenary, especially the flowers on the side making the thin trees pop with detail.This whole piece is all bright and vagrant with nothing hiding in the dark.

Abstract motion blur.

To create a abstract motion blur you need the shutter speed to be at least 1/500+ to see what shutter speed is suiting for your picture. A blur is a chance to explore colour, pattern and forget about the picky detail- even though it is nice- It’s a fun way to experiment with your camera and get the results to be very cool.

Another way to do a motion abstract monitor  blur is to tilt your camera clockwise and anti clockwise. With this you can easily get a spiral like effect to your picture.

here’s an example

mise-en-san. In this image there’s only colours that  blend and match well, the blue and brown shades compliment each over well to make it almost smooth like its been painted. It feels like as if you’re on a roller coaster ride going around and all you can see if the blur of the outside.

Ghosting

Ghosting is caused is caused when moving objects across multiple images are combined into one image. you’ll need to have a low light so you know it’s a low shutter speed. you’ll need to remind the model so when they hear the first click they don’t move in blur. Depending on your camera sometimes it’s a beep that goes off. you’ll need a low shutter speed of 1/8 seconds so you can get the ghosting effect you want. Here is an example of ghosting .

mise-en-san. This Image does have a very dark theme to it, however it can mean a lot of things, but the main one is that he jumped and this is his ghost visiting. The suspense and dark theme of this ghosting method is very effective. The majorette of  ghosting has a dark element to them but some can grab your attention in a positive light.

Facial Blur

For this technique you’ll need a tripod. Use a long shutter speed and get your model to to move their face during the shot. You can use any body part to use this but it’s more effective on trying to show two emotions within one picture. The ending result can look real nice once the end result has been edited with colour balance. here’s an example of the facial blur.

mise-en-san. Even though this image is showing both facial features the same emotion you cant help but to feel there’s a lot more emotion to it than normal, the image is in black and white something that stands out a lot more than it would have in colour as it gives suspense in the picture.

Today we did a little animation test with a ball and the squash and stretch technique. we all took turns drawing the balls and taking the photos. the end result ended up looking like this:

The only thing i wan to improve about this piece is that the other balls were rubbed out properly, otherwise it turned out really well.

1. Squash and stretch- gives illusion of weight and volume to a subject, and is often used for comical effect.
2. Anticipation- prepares the audiences for action, and increases the realism of action. Sometimes used to heighten the suspense of a scene.
3. Arcs- Humans and animals always move in arcs. Arcs increases the realism of the subject’s action.
4. Ease in & ease out- The subject needs time to slow down – and speed up. Drawings between two extreme poses provide the subject with greater realistic movement.
5. Appeal- Animated characters need to captivate audiences. Complicated character faces and lack of symmetry often make it difficult for audiences to connect.
6. Timing- More frames create slower action, whilst fewer frames create faster action.
7. Solid Drawing- Adds weight, volume and 3D illusion to the subject
8. Exaggeration- Presents the physical features or elements of a character in an exaggerated form.
9. Pose to pose- Works for highly emotional and dramatised scenes. Involved drawing a few key frames for each action, followed by filling the intervals.
10. Staging- Communicates the primary mood, action or idea of a scene. Animators, Johnston and Thomas defined it as “The presentation of any idea so that it is completely and unmistakably clear.”
11. Secondary action- Emphasises and supports the primary action of the subject, whilst providing scenes with greater life.
12. Follow Through- Refers to parts of the subject that continues to move after a completed action. For example, the movement of a hand after an object has been thrown.

Our idea is to use photographic animation to piece together an animation to raise awareness for suicide. Our group (me, Alfie and Izzy) have decided to use the awareness of suicide as it’s something that is looked over in the country. We have a lot to do for the next couple days, we will be reading a ‘suicide note’ over some music that we may compose or get some instrumental music. yesterday and some of today i managed to draw the story board step by step on how we’re going to plan out our steps.

we’ve booked the music room all week next week so we can plan what we’re going to do. We will also need to book the studio for an hour or two so we can do the first couple of scenes, otherwise it’s just outside for the rest of the day, we will be doing the writing outside as we need to keep it in the same area.

This morning we did some ink work. We had a variety of  of ink colours to choose from, instead of just putting ink on my paper, i decided to draw a sketch of a leopard with horns. I was going to drip the ink from the eyes but then i just decided to put the ink at the top so that the ink will run down past and onto my sketch so that when you look at it you’ll see the image when you really focus. We were given a variety of materials to make the ink run, we could just put the ink at the top of the page and make it run by tipping it, but we had pipette, wooden sticks and straws to blow into to make it more concentrated. The only colour ink i used was black as it fitted the whole aesthetic that i was going for, but there was yellow, green, orange, blue and red. It was fun seeing how these artists do ink manipulation, I can say it does take a steady hand and free time.