Lecture
topic:
Animation
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Simple, but
“moving” animated gifs
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Stop Action
Animation
Stop Action
Animation is an animation technique which makes static objects appear to move.
Stop motion is used to produce the animated movements of ANY objects, such as
toys, blocks, dolls, etc. If desired, we will permit the use of drawn animation
as well for this assignment.
All animation, including all stop motion, requires a camera that can
expose single frames. It works by shooting a single frame of an object, then
moving the object slightly, then shooting another frame. When the film runs
continuously at 24 frames per second, the illusion of fluid motion is created
and the objects appear to move by themselves. This is similar to the animation
of cartoons, but using real objects instead of drawings.
Probably the
most passive form of stop motion is time lapse
animation in which a stop motion camera is simply clicked (manually or via an
intermittent control device called an intervolometer) to take a frame of
film as each period of time lapses, as natural objects of nature and mankind
move of their own accord, non-interfered with by the animator. The most common
uses for time lapse stop-motion animation movie photography are moving clouds,
seen daily during weather forecasts in moving satellite imagery, the speeding
up of the growth of plants, and stars as they appear to "rotate"
around the Earth.
Cell Phone
Claymation
From:
DaggeH
15 year old
from Sweden Claymation Video, Made with a W800i cell phone, took me bout an
hour and I used around 100 shots, clips clipped together in movie maker 2.0
(Windows
XP: Movie Maker 2.1 Download)
or for mac
users: imovie http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/
More
Claymation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3lSGDgfSdc&feature=dir
Claymation
info: http://www.animateclay.com/
Amazing Stop
Motion Animations: http://www.darkstrider.net/gallery2a.html
The d. i. y. animation
workshop
Foil Spiderman stop action movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lTuSFILCp4&NR
MUTO a wall painted by BLU
Roger,
an example of stop motion
Stop Motion
Pro http://www.stopmotionpro.com/whatis_1.htm
Tutorials: http://www.stopmotionpro.com/assets/resources/tutorials/SMP_canon_compact_start.html
http://www.stopmotionpro.com/tutorials.htm
Visiting
artist:
Shawn Lawson
Screenings: William
Kentridge
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Studio
skills: Photographing
motion, animation, storytelling, drama, creativity, expression with moving
objects
Project: Create a
stop action animation using any methodology. This could simply be a series of
animated gifs, as we did previously in Image Ready or a claymation project or a
series of interrelated drawings on paper or screen that are put into the
computer or… . The basic idea here is to create motion using still frames.
Some student
examples:
http://www.arts.rpi.edu/public%5Fhtml/ruiz/public%5Fhtml/IDIspring04%2D01/ss5.html
Task: Considering
the lectures in plenary and in studio and your personal explorations of the
animated image, create a minimum 30 frame animation. Use the criteria above for
guidance.
Deliverables:
a
minimum of 36 frames (3 seconds @ 12 fps) of your original animated sequence
in a .gif or .swf flash player or quicktime format
Grading
Criteria:
1.
Assignment completed on-time.
2.
Adherence to the size and file format specifications
3.
Appropriate use of animation
4.
Exploration and application of creative tools in creating animation
5.
Quality and clarity of class presentation
6. Quality of Inventiveness, expression, and imagination in your animated stop motion