Today we started working on animation. We did the task of making a bouncing ball flickbook. This is the first thing people do when introduced to animation. We drew arc shapes on a post it note to be our guide line of where the ball would be bouncing. We then put that under another post, and could see the line underneath (this is called onion skinning). We then drew the first ball shape accordingly to our guideline. When the ball would be at the top of an arc the ball would be circle and they would be bunched together to give the impression of slowing down. When the ball would be falling we would space them apart and make them more oval shape to give the impression of speed. I was pleased with how mine looked.
We then went on to looking at stop motion animation. This is where for example you build a man made of clay. You take a picture, then you move his arm a little bit up and take another picture. Then move it a little bit more, and take another picture. If you carry on doing this you end up with the man raising his arm. We looked at the work of BLU. BLU is a graffiti artist and uses buildings and the surroundings as his backround. He paints an area white, and then paints his idea on to that, and then paints over in white and does it all again. This is a very long process. Here is the video of his work that we looked at:
We have been given a paper pad to come up with our own idea for a ten second video of stop motion animation. For ten seconds of film we need to draw around 80-120 pages. We will then take pictures of them all and put them all together.
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