Project Log 3

What have you done since last time?
i have re-evaluated my animation and have tweaked any missing parts. Ive edited the speed of it, and have tried to create the element of movement.
What worked? What didn't?
I think the initial idea of skiing down a hill worked, as i got the arms to move in different positions but so they were in sync with the legs. I think that was probably the hardest thing i had to do in my animation and i seemed to cover it pretty well. I don't think my idea in general worked too well. It didn't make a lot of sense, and was a pretty poor effort in creativity. It didn't work so well zooming in on the facial expressions of characters either, as the focus came out blurry in places.
What soloutions have you found?
I found that using macro mode works on zoom, but only to a certain extent. The soloution i found for this is to have the image i'm taking closer, and using the zoom button less often.
What do you need to do next?
I need to decide on any changes i may make to the animation, for example music and sound effects. I don't however think i will use any of those mediums, as i'm quite content with my animation.

CLAYMATION by ellie, sable, and rachael

This is a claymation me and others created at the beginning of the year. Our animation was made up by creating different characters, and making up a storyline simply by analysing their appearance. Our charactes were quite distinctive as you can see, so we were clueless about how to start out animation. We decided to turn it into a worst case scenario love story, resulting in a messy situation. It was quite easy to make the animation, although it was time consuming having to move each part of our characters literally a millimetre per shot. We ended up taking quite a few shots, and resulted in quite a successful end product. i think we could have put a lot more thought into the story behind this animation, but considering it was a first time using claymation i think we did pretty well, especially in making the girl character fall over.