Stop Motion Team working Evidence

In order to complete this brief successfully each member of our group had to contribute their thoughts and ideas to the project which would culminate in a finished animation which drew inspiration from each other’s ideas. Once the process had begun each person gravitated towards a role they suited best and used that to benefit the team as a whole. By doing this we created an easy workflow where ideas were bounced off of one another and allowed us to work efficiently and complete the mini-project in the hour time limit we were given.

Storyboard

Before we decided the content for the animation we drew out a storyboard on the sheets of paper we were given as it allowed us to visualise a set time frame and how many scenes we wanted to be included in the animation and what would be achievable for us in the given time frame. We then discussed what could take place between the 2 mannequins that would make for a dynamic sequence of events and we decided on a short fight scene as that wouldn’t have been too hard to make look authentic. Andreana suggested using the blu-tack to form the shape of the bat which helped make the animation look more obvious to what we were trying to achieve.

Blue = Ella, Purple = Gabriel, Green = Andreana

Team Planning

In order to get the anatomy right for the people as we were sketching out each scene we posed the mannequins in the relevant pose so we could directly translate it onto the paper. Andreana and Gabriel took one side of the sheet of paper with one mannequin and I took the other; this way we could work separately on different parts from where we were sitting and we wouldn’t get in each others way and slow sown the process. Whilst we drew out the key frames (the starting and ending scenes) we discussed what events would take place during the animation and tried to make the timeline make sense. We all contributed ideas and used the knowledge from what someone else had drawn for the previous frame so we could draw our own frame and make sure it flowed well.

Gabriel also used the blu-tack to model some hair for one of the mannequins so that it’d become easier to differentiate them from one another as they both looked exactly the same. I added more brief captions the drawings to make it more obvious what was taking place in each scene so that we wouldn’t forget when it came time to animating it.

Once it came to producing the animation we each took separate roles that we would stick to so to make it look as smooth as possible. Gabriel used his phone to take photos however we quickly realised we weren’t able to keep it still enough for the animation to look effective so instead of holding it we found a suitable white wall to use as the background and propped up his phone using some blocks which we used as a make-shift tripod.

Mine and Andreana’s Job was to pose the mannequins for each individual frame whilst Gabriel instructed whether or not they had moved enough or too little as he could see the viewing area through his phone. We also used sellotape to tie around the mannequins head so that we could hold it up in scenes and give the illusion it was floating.

Final Animation