DAY TWO - CLAY ANIMATION

It was great that you experimented in order to learn from your mistakes, and from the mistakes your other classmates made. We are a team!

Today we worked on three clay animations:
1. Make a ball of clay morph into a snake and slither off of the page.
2. Make a ball of clay morph into a car and drive off of the page.
3. Make a ball of clay morph into different shapes.

Here are some great examples of morphing clay!





When we screened your animations we learned how to:

CRITIQUE
Identify the choices that the animators made and discuss what you liked or learned from those decisions.
Here are some things we need to think about and talk to each other about in order to make our animations the best that they can be!

Color Contrast - The colors of the shapes against the color of the background.
Could you see the shapes clearly? Why or why not?

Movement - Was the movement of the shapes or characters choppy or smooth?
What makes this happen?

Personal Opinion - What was the funniest part? What was your favorite part?
Did the animators make the impossible possible?

We also learned about DEADLINES, how to make sure that we finish everything by a certain date, in our case our SCREENING of all of our animations on Friday and our long term animation project.

Long-term animation project : You will all, within your groups, make a three to five minute collaborative animation with sound, backgrounds, characters and a story. You will use your wild imaginations to come up with your own characters and cool backgrounds made entirely of paper.

DAY ONE - CLAY ANIMATION

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Thanks for visiting the blog!
Here you can find all of the videos we watched in class and even more cool stuff, be sure to check back everyday.

I hope you all had fun today in class and learned a lot.
Do you remember the different kinds of animations that we talked about?
I bet you do!

2-D (Two dimensional) Animation :

CUTOUT ANIMATION:
Changing PAPER objects/shapes/characters and photographing them
one frame at a time to make the objects look like they're moving.

For Becky! from Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs. on Vimeo.

3-d (Three dimensional) Animation :

STOP MOTION ANIMATION:
Changing REAL LIFE objects and photographing them
one frame at a time to make the objects look like they're moving.

Stop-motion string animation from Sorano on Vimeo.

CLAY ANIMATION:
Changing CLAY objects and photographing them
one frame at a time to make the objects look like they're moving and morphing.
** This is the kind of animation that we will be doing in class this week! **


COMPUTER ANIMATION / CGI :
A computer version of stop motion. Instead of moving objects one frame at a time with your hands, the computer moves the object for you.



PIXILATION:
Changing PEOPLE as objects and photographing them
one frame at a time to make the objects look like they're moving and morphing.
Using this effect allows people to disappear and reappear out of thin air, float across the ground and fly!
*** We will do a special pixilation exercise on Wednesday ***

pixilation from Sora Sora on Vimeo.

The animation program that we are using in class is called Frame Thief, and you can download the program for FREE on your computer at home if you use a MAC computer.
Just click on this link :
http://www.framethief.com/download.html

You did great movements with the objects that you picked out of the magic bags and were able to begin making stories through the use of character movements.

Is there anything you all can't do?

Here are some awesome stopmotion animations:

Looking forward to seeing all of you directors of photography, shape shifters and frame thiefs tomorrow for another day filled with fun.
Just remember, with animation, we can MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE!

FINAL DAY - ANIMATION COMBINATION

Sorry about not getting up your wonderful videos sooner!
As you will all see below, you've done n incredible amount of work for the short time that we were given, and I am so so very proud of you all for accomplishing learning all of these new techniques, and also learning the importance of teamwork along the way!

Here they are in all of their animated glory:

Your long-term animations:

Your clay animations:










Your Stopmotion animations:









...And finally, your paper cutout animations:

DAY FOUR - ANIMATION COMBINATION

Hey all of you animators! Your pixilation turned out so awesome! Take a look:

I hope that all of you are pumped for our screening tomorrow, Friday, at 2:45.
Make sure to give the invitations to your families and friends to come and see all of the hard work that you've been doing this week.
Make sure to practice your filmmaker introductions!

Our deadline to finish animating is Thursday at 2:30
so that we will have time to create our sound effects.
Our silly symphony game will help us come up with some interesting sounds.