Animation Production

During the production of my animation I came across many difficulties that I thought I could avoid. One of these problems being that I had many difficulties with my camera. First off the camera wasn't very good, the battery kept on coming popping out therefore the camera would power off. This was a real disadvantage towards the production of my animation as I kept having to restart the camera and retake the shot. It even sometimes deleted some of the pictures so I had to re do them. This therefore wasted a lot of my time as I had to re do it and find a different camera. In the end I brought in a camera from home. This made it a lot easier to produce my animation and get all the pictures because the camera was reliable. Also because I had my own camera I could always make sure I could get a camera because some times the camera I used from college wasn't always available for use so then I would have to use a different camera which is annoying because half my pictures are on one camera and the rest on another. So in conclusion by me bringing in a camera from home it made it much easier to produce my animation because I was 100% guaranteed a camera, it was 100% reliable and all my photos were all stored on one camera.

Secondly, during the production with my animation I also came across some over problems apart from camera. To produce my animation I wanted to take the pictures in the studio at college, I wanted to do this because it has very good lighting. However, the studio wasn't always available for me to use as sometimes other people were in there either recording something or also other members of my media class were also producing their animation. This was an disadvantage as they some times wanted to use the area I was working in, wanted different lighting or using some of the equipment I was using. So, to avoid  this I finished my animation at home. This benefited me a lot as the room I was using was always free and overall it was much easier to produce as I could use the room to my liking. In conclusion I had many difficulties but I found a solution for them, and managed to produce my animation to a good standard.

Detailed Blog on my Animation Idea

For my stop motion animation idea, I will be using an iPod and show my hand unlocking it, opening the music application and then finding a song and playing it. Whilst the song is playing, I will make a figure of a person made out of play dough and use a toy skate board called a "tech deck". I will use a white background and draw a road. The person will be riding the skate board down the street, dodging in and out of the cars. Whilst he is showing off he will hit a car, a fly over the roof and splat onto the ground, because he is made of play dough he won't stay in one piece instead flat out like a pancake. I got my idea from YouTube, I searched "Stop motion animation" and there was lots of videos, I found one of a bike rider. He used a white background and drew his bike and the person on it. I really liked this idea but unfortunately it wasn't 3D. So then I thought about it and came up with the skate boarder idea. It needed to be 3D so I thought about using a "tech deck" and making a figure out of play dough, this will then make it look 3D. The reason why I am using play dough is because it will be easier to move and make it into a figure, rather than other materials. For my animation I will be using 12 frames per second, I think this is suitable as if I use any less 8 frames per second for example the whole animation won't be long enough and there won't be enough shots in one second of the animation. The more pictures per second, the better the animation will look and it will flow better. If I use anymore that 12 I might not be able to fit all the shots in that second. It will also be very timing consuming.

Whilst producing my stop motion animation I could come across some some problems. Because I am making my person out of play dough the person could fall apart. To prevent this I will use a wire and then use play dough outside of the wire. By using a wire inside the play dough it will give the figure some support. If I don't use the wire the figure may fall apart and then when I re build it, it may not look the same. Another problem I could come across is, whilst he is flying through the air, I will be using string to hold him up. You may be able to see the string. So to prevent this I will be using a white background with a fine white cotton string so they can't see it. I could also come across the camera failing and then losing my pictures, to prevent this I will fully charge the camera's battery so it should have enough power. Also after every frame I will save the pictures onto my computer. I will use my time wisely so start filming as soon as possible so I have more than enough time.