28th March Lesson

Today i finally recorded my Stop Motion!

It lasted about 30 seconds (excluding Titles & Credits)

Here is the video unedited and with no music:

To make my Background stand up I used a number of selotaped rulers to the back of my printed out image. Then I selotaped the base to it to make it fit in.

Here are a couple of pictures how I did it:

Todays Lesson..

I have started filming my Stop Motion and got up to about 5 seconds, next week I will continue it and hopefully finish!

The backgrounds and characters work well and i think it should work when finished.

Lessons Progress

Today i have finalised my models, fixing the crocodiles and making a human on a raft (with hotdogs).

I have then chose, printed and cut out  2 backgrounds to use.

I am now ready to film!

Storyline Change

I have decided to change my storyline to a more simplified one.

I am going to use a family of crocodiles (simply because it;'s the only animal i can make) and then some humans on a boat.

They will either end up fighting or  becoming friends.. The video will reveal all!

Dope Sheet

Here is our Dope Sheet for our Lip Syncing.

We were to lip sync the word 'Elephant' and timed how many frames it was for each synonym of the word.

From looking at everyone else's we found out that we got pretty much the same idea of background and used the same mouth for each letter.

This was the face we used and were going to use to animate with the different mouths on.

Backgrounds

For my story it will most likely be based in a Desert (with the crocodiles) with parts of water.

I can either use a real life background or a cartoon background.

It will probably be off Google Images and i will print it out and then move my models around on it.

For example a Desert could look like:

With the men on Camels in the background makes it look more realistic when i am filming my story.

This background would most likely be better. As it has blue skies and a sunny background it will give the image of a Desert, but with the water it will let the Crocodile's crawl out and move around in the Grassy areas.

I think if using the squirrel it will suit any background and environment. As it if more of a funny character it can just turn up anywhere and do what it has to do.

Models.. Snake!

This is a picture of all the characters so far. Pretty random selection but they were just made to test how easy or difficult they were to make.

I think I will use a crocodile family in my final story and maybe the squirrel.

Here is a multi coloured snake (VERY poisonous) I made in todays lesson, if using a Snake in my story i will either mix colours together or just use one colour. Snakes are easy to make and move so would be easy to use when recording.

Further Models.. Extra Crocodile

Baby Crocodile added, will probably make more to add to the family.

This is what a real Crocodile family looks like. They have at least more than 10 reptiles in so i will have to make a scaled down version.