friday 11/12/09

Today starting off with ewan's class we were still working on the models and the backgrounds.

i helped make some flags out of plasticine for our mascot models then started fixing the start and finishing line. it wasnt stable enough soo i got some wires and twisted them together to make a good structure to stand up then i put back on the orange plastacine.

Also i helped make a new crowd background by putting coloured circle dots on a big sheet of paper, we couldnt use the last background because of copyright and we couldnt contact the person to ask for permission to use the background image.

i also had to help making grass by cutting up thin sheets of different colour of green paper for the running track that the mascots will be running on.

In brian's class i had to catch up on my planning sheet because i was off, i filled out the two sheets then moved onto my sketch book colouring and sketching out the model mascots i made also writing in information about how to make it and what are the requirements.

I didnt have enough time to blog this at college or get pictures of what i was doing :(

10/12/09 gavins class's

today i done my presentation in gavins class it was really easy for me because it was about the basics of editing and what programs to use for it and how to save and render files. and editing is a topic i really enjoy and can talk forever about and edit for hours and i got good feedback at the end and gavin looked pretty impressed what i had to offer.

for his second class we were analysing Michael Jacksons video black or white and discussing the sterotypes they used the lyrics and the hidden messages in the video.

Video url for the music video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqZnxvAPkL8

Catching up "flipbook"

i was recently off and today i was making a flip book animation.

i started drawing my picture by picture animation then finished and then printed them off to the computer and saved each picture into a folder and soon enough ill stick them all into imovie

catching up Friday, 23 October 2009 finished websites

My group with: adam kayleigh and dawn.

We all finished our website design for our project bounce insane in the brain
it wasnt that much hard of a job all we really needed was research and just to design it and it was done.

Here is a link to our finished website for bounc: http://www.delphcreative.co.uk/temp/bounce/index.html

catching up "what happened today"

Today in john's class we were still working on our props and backgrounds on our project.

i made 2 plasticine models one which is a teddy bear and the other one which is yellow with a spikey red head.

we decided to make mascots for our animation project and that they would compete against each other in a race and all win in the end.

it took me a while took make them and i think i done a pretty good job

catching up "story boarding background set up"

today we got got all our ideas set up on our story board soo then i started drawing in the story board and putting useful information to help guide us or anyone else to what we were doing

Group activities

this is our group and what we are doing in them

Becca-collecting resources;

Karen-setting equipment;

Joanne-setting equipment;

John-research;

Eta-collecting resources

Allan-filming editing

Rab-final storyboard;

Jamie-filming editing

blog catch up "show racism the red card"

Our topic for the new project is "Show Racism the Red Card",over the the next few week we will be exploring various model making techniques suitable for 3D animation:

1. Mod roc
   
2. Wire
   
3. Plasticine
   
4. Backdrops/props

animation techniques

i was off allot recently so i have to catch up with my college blogger account and this is

about animation techniques

just a couple words about animation techniques.

stop motion or model animation :also known as stop-action or frame-by-frame) isan-animation technique to make a  manipulated object appear to move by itself. The object is moved in tiny increments between individually photographed frames creating the illusion of movement when the set of frames is played as a continuous patterns. Clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop motion animation using clay is described as clay animation or clay-mation. For example Wallace and Gromit -clay animation,Robot Chicken-stop motion animation.

Drawn animation: pop aye family guy and other things like futureama are drawn animations then they are coloured in

rotoscoping:One original use of  rotoscoping was in the star warz movie, it was used to make/create the glowing lightsaber effect, by creating a matte based on sticks held by the actors. To achieve this, editors traced a line over each frame with the prop, then enlarged each line and added the glow.Cut-out animation: such as southpark using cutouts and animating them together..

Computer animation or computer generated imagery: is the art of creating moving images with the use of computersan image is displayed on the computer screenand repeatedly replaced by a new image that is similar to the previous image, but advanced slightly in the time domain usually at a rate of 24 or 30 frames/second 

this technique is identical to how the illusion of movement is achieved withtelevision and motion pictures  for example shrek and toy story.