Projects In Term 3/4In Term 3 we worked on making movie posters and white board animations. In term 4 we continued to work on the animations.
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Movie Poster ↓
For my movie poster, I chose to make a Wizard of Oz poster that focuses on the fact that we're going to be moving to a new building next year. It kind of plays on the idea of going from this not-so-modern town and journeying down the path towards a shiny, brand new school. I also thought it'd be funny to play on the name, changing Oz to Mos, a reference to our principal. The sub-title "Follow the sound of my voice" is also a play on our principal and his catch phrase.
Everything in this poster I created myself. The 4 iconic characters were all made in Adobe Illustrator using the pen tool. These characters have very intricate details, patterns, and textures that add to make them as realistic as possible. The school was also made using the pen tool, by tracing over a photo of what the real new school will look like. I then drew a pathway to represent the yellow brick road, and added a brick texture to make it more detailed. The text was done in Adobe Photoshop. I customized the title text using various embossing, coloring, and highlighting features. Then at the bottom I followed a general movie poster format and included the names of the characters, the release date, and the company that made it. If I were to change anything about this poster, I'd work on making the school and the pink flower field more detailed, but for the most part I think this was a really good movie poster recreation. |
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Stop Motion Animations ↓
For this project we had to use a camera, a whiteboard, and various objects to make stop motion animations. We had to make animations with drawing, 3D objects, simple objects, and cardboard cutouts. For my objects I used many things, such as sharpies, pencils, highlights, an iPhone, sticks and packages of gum, paper cutouts, and cardboard cutouts.
In my first animation I used my iPhone to make an interesting animation that follows what you would normally do on a phone. I took a snapshot of each individual movement and used the onion skin feature to ensure that my fingers matched up properly. In one part of the animation, I draw the word "Hi" in an app on my phone. As my finger draws Hi on the phone, the word hi appears on the white board next to the phone. I thought this was one of the best things I did out of all the stop motions I made. |
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In the second animation I used a pencil and drawings to create a clock animation. The pencil rolls around and draws a squiggle that turns into numbers around a clock. The pencil serves as the piece in the center that tells the time. I chose to keep out the number 9 from the clock, and than put question marks to show it was missing. Then I zoomed out the clock and the entire shape of the clock ended up being the circle in the number 9. A line was added and the 9 was found, and then the circle part of the 9 uncoils itself into a straight line and edges off the page. In this animation there was a lot I could have done better. It could have been much smoother, cleaner, and shots should have been taken more often than what they were. However, this was one of the first animations I made and it was good practice for the better animations I made later on.
In the third animation there is a spider roaming around the whiteboard, and when my hand goes to squish it, the spider comes alive off the whiteboard and crawls all over my hand and ends up becoming part of an exclamation point in the word "AH!". This was the very first animation I did. I decided to use a paper cutout to make the spider look like it was moving around my hand instead of keeping it on just the white board. It made it look more realistic and made the animation more interesting. The same problems in the last are present in this animation too. It could have been smoother, more shots could have been taken to make it more fluid, and the lighting wasn't continuous throughout the entire piece. Overall though, considering it was the very first I made, I thought this was a fun and cool animation.
In the fourth animation I used a penguin paper cutout, a snowy background, and red and green makers to make a fun animation of a penguin walking around and gaining a tail that was drawn on the white board. This animation was a lot more fluid than the others, as the penguin's movements looked a lot more natural rather than stop motion. The drawing on the white board also moved too, due to me erasing parts and adding more marker scribbles to other. The only problem with this was the the lighting was not consistent and the camera was having trouble focusing in many of the shots, so some is blurred while others are HD. At the end, to add a bit more fun, I wrote Let It Snow and threw paper scraps all over the board to make it seem like it was snowing. Then the penguin and my hand roll through to clean up the mess.
The fifth animation is my favorite out of all of the animations I did. In my opinion it was the most technically accurate and it was very complex and had a lot going on. In the animation, there is a pack of gum and sticks. They move around, open and close, and the gum takes itself out of the package. There is a lot of overlapping and movement that occurred, which was done so accurately because of the onion skin tool. It was just a very cool and different stop motion than the others that I did, and I really enjoyed making and watching it.
In the third animation there is a spider roaming around the whiteboard, and when my hand goes to squish it, the spider comes alive off the whiteboard and crawls all over my hand and ends up becoming part of an exclamation point in the word "AH!". This was the very first animation I did. I decided to use a paper cutout to make the spider look like it was moving around my hand instead of keeping it on just the white board. It made it look more realistic and made the animation more interesting. The same problems in the last are present in this animation too. It could have been smoother, more shots could have been taken to make it more fluid, and the lighting wasn't continuous throughout the entire piece. Overall though, considering it was the very first I made, I thought this was a fun and cool animation.
In the fourth animation I used a penguin paper cutout, a snowy background, and red and green makers to make a fun animation of a penguin walking around and gaining a tail that was drawn on the white board. This animation was a lot more fluid than the others, as the penguin's movements looked a lot more natural rather than stop motion. The drawing on the white board also moved too, due to me erasing parts and adding more marker scribbles to other. The only problem with this was the the lighting was not consistent and the camera was having trouble focusing in many of the shots, so some is blurred while others are HD. At the end, to add a bit more fun, I wrote Let It Snow and threw paper scraps all over the board to make it seem like it was snowing. Then the penguin and my hand roll through to clean up the mess.
The fifth animation is my favorite out of all of the animations I did. In my opinion it was the most technically accurate and it was very complex and had a lot going on. In the animation, there is a pack of gum and sticks. They move around, open and close, and the gum takes itself out of the package. There is a lot of overlapping and movement that occurred, which was done so accurately because of the onion skin tool. It was just a very cool and different stop motion than the others that I did, and I really enjoyed making and watching it.
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This animation to the left was the sixth animation that I made. This animation if of sharpies and highlighters. This is also one of my favorite animations that I made because it's so quick and constant. There's always something moving and switching and the bright colors make it look very interesting and cool. I continuously kept changing the positions of the highlights and switching the colors around so that the pens appeared to never move but only changed colors. If I were to do this again I would probably add in some white board aspects by making it seem like the pens were drawing their colors onto the board. The reason I didn't do this originally was because I didn't have those colored dry erase markers and I felt it was important for the colors to match, so I opted against it. Overall though this is a really great, technical animation.
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