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 stop action
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.
PEN Story in
stop motion. ..shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800
pictures again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Et7UQh1tg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo1d6ttbAq8&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_stronger_r2-HM
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
Claymation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3lSGDgfSdc&feature=dir
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rTTroqslQ0
Vintage Claymation:
http://www.archive.org/details/Gumbasia_331
Claymation
info: http://www.animateclay.com/
Roger,
an example of stop motion
Watercolor
animation: Jeff Scher
http://scher.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/the-parade/
http://scher.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/dog-days/
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
Stop action
animation: sorry, I’m Late:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVaL9gCTqY0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2F&feature=player_embedded
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. Suggested methodologies are below.
Photograph a series of still sequential motions of objects, or claymation, or a
series of interrelated paper or digital drawings. The basic idea here is to
create motion using still frames. Be aware of lighting and camera angle to make
your animation come to life.
* Use a
tripod or steady yourself
* Use a good
quality camera (the maximum size to
work with for this study is approximately 2800 pixels wide max and be less than
1mb
* Beware of light
and use good lighting techniques
* later on you
can also experiment with moving around the object as well as moving the object
itself.
Basic how-to
for stop action anim:
http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Stop-Motion-Animation
You can many
different techniques:
* photoshop
animation (see below for specifics)or
* for PC
users Windows Movie Maker or
* for Mac
users imovie http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/
or Frame Thief http://framethief.com/ or
* AnimatorDV or
* StopMotionPro computer
software designed for stop motion animation - traditional cel, claymation,
cutout or experimental techniques.
If
using Photoshop animation please
remember:
Place all your stop action images into a folder.
* In Photoshop CS4: Go to: File | Scripts | Load Files into
Stack...
* Select: Use Folder
* Browse and click OK to get the images in.
* (You can try using alignment option, (but you are better
off using the tripod to ensure that things align up correctly.))
*Just make sure that each image is in its own layer.
* Bring up the animation window by going to window | animation
* click the small frame icon in the lower-right corner of the
animation window to toggle between the frame
window and the timeline window.
* In the animation frame window click on the duplicat frame
icon (looks like the add a layer optinon) for each image you have,
* Then specify which image you want to see in each frame of
your animation by turning on the visibility (clicking the "eye" icon)
for just the image desired for that frame.
* Then, just set the time duration between frames to what you
want and click "play" to see it.
* Then go to file, save
as a .psd
* Then go to File Export Render Video
* name your movie and select where you want to save it
* File Options:
QuickTime | Export | Quicktime Movie
* if you want to change the type of compression go into
Settings
* you click Settings again and under Compression Type select H.264 for web which takes up less
memory.
* Document Size make sure the pixel ratio is what you worked with.
* Range: All Frames
* Frame Rate 24fps
* Then hit Render, you have a QuickTime
movie of your animation!!!
Some student
examples:
Stop action
animation project by MS:I student Tom
Kinstrey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XZiHoXQcFs
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 36 frame animation. Use the criteria above for
guidance.
Deliverables:
a
minimum of 36 frames (.5 seconds @ 12 fps minimum) of your original animated
sequence in .WMV (windows Media Player) or .MOV (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