Unit 33
Stop Motion Animation
Diary Of Progress: Adam Brocklesby
13th October
today i started generating ideas for my animation idea, i have already decided that it shall be a Plasticine stop motion animation but i struggled to come up with an idea, the ideas were
1. A morph parody involving breaking the fourth wall and generally making fun of the canon content we're parodying,
2. A Lurpack advert spoof where the character i create gets in a fight with the Lurpack man for playing his trombone all the time.
3. A dockside setting where thy try and tow a ship into the port but end up sinking both it and themselves.
4. a space setting where an alien kid is pestering his dad until he turns around the ship from the planet they were going to destroy, revealed at the end to be earth.
in the end i decided going with the morph parody would be the best idea as i had a clear idea of where to go with it and had settings and props easily available for it, as art supplies and any random room would ad to the feeling i am going to try and get across.
16th October
today i made a start on the storyboard for my animation project. It is hand drawn and uncoloured like all storyboards, although now i have started it i realise that aside from the things i have already thought of i still have a lot to do, such as the bits in-between what i have already thought of, seeing as i have until next month until its due i feel i will be able to leave it for a while.
18th October
today i started working on my script for my animation project, using the things i have learnt through my years in college and self teaching i knew what text to write it in and how it should be laid out, figuring out what they could say for a short was difficult, as i had no idea what the actual duration would be until we get behind the microphone, i managed to get it done today, although some improvisations may have to be made if there's either not enough or too much.
20th October
today i started working on the paperwork that would have to be handed in alongside my work, including an audience evaluation and who my animation will be aimed at, also started today was my Generation of production ideas, basically this meant looking at possible outcomes still going along the ideas of the story line i have chosen, such as different backdrops, different reactions, lights, cameras, frame-rates and settings, when that was done i then looked at possible formats, i was shocked at the wide range of formats available to me even though i thought i had already chosen. but i soon found the one right for me.
25th October
completed another page of my storyboard and worked more on my documents
26th October
completed another page of my storyboard and worked more on my documents
1. A morph parody involving breaking the fourth wall and generally making fun of the canon content we're parodying,
2. A Lurpack advert spoof where the character i create gets in a fight with the Lurpack man for playing his trombone all the time.
3. A dockside setting where thy try and tow a ship into the port but end up sinking both it and themselves.
4. a space setting where an alien kid is pestering his dad until he turns around the ship from the planet they were going to destroy, revealed at the end to be earth.
in the end i decided going with the morph parody would be the best idea as i had a clear idea of where to go with it and had settings and props easily available for it, as art supplies and any random room would ad to the feeling i am going to try and get across.
16th October
today i made a start on the storyboard for my animation project. It is hand drawn and uncoloured like all storyboards, although now i have started it i realise that aside from the things i have already thought of i still have a lot to do, such as the bits in-between what i have already thought of, seeing as i have until next month until its due i feel i will be able to leave it for a while.
18th October
today i started working on my script for my animation project, using the things i have learnt through my years in college and self teaching i knew what text to write it in and how it should be laid out, figuring out what they could say for a short was difficult, as i had no idea what the actual duration would be until we get behind the microphone, i managed to get it done today, although some improvisations may have to be made if there's either not enough or too much.
20th October
today i started working on the paperwork that would have to be handed in alongside my work, including an audience evaluation and who my animation will be aimed at, also started today was my Generation of production ideas, basically this meant looking at possible outcomes still going along the ideas of the story line i have chosen, such as different backdrops, different reactions, lights, cameras, frame-rates and settings, when that was done i then looked at possible formats, i was shocked at the wide range of formats available to me even though i thought i had already chosen. but i soon found the one right for me.
25th October
completed another page of my storyboard and worked more on my documents
26th October
completed another page of my storyboard and worked more on my documents
3rd November
today i made my models from Plasticine and got ready to animate them, i sculpted them by hand and by a pair of scissors and then set them up in the room i was to be taking the photo's in along with props and lights, this took all day as i wanted to insure my models were of the highest quality i could manage, then when i got home i was able to finish my storyboard, but i must come in on Tuesday as well to start animating.
4th November
today i came in to college to start animating, usually i despise coming in on a day off and today was no different, i managed to get the majority done but had to leave in order to catch the last bus or's i would have been stranded.
5th November
today i had the whole afternoon to get my photo's done but again i had to hurry towards the end to get the pictures i had taken on the computer, then the memory sticks so i could get them home to edit the next day, which is a day off so i have all day to edit them and arrange them into clips.
6th November
after editing 104 pictures yesterday i still had around 200 left to do, it took me a good few hour's but then made them into the clips i was to use for my animation, it took a while longer than i was expecting but then i was able to put them on my hard-drive, this got stressfull as the computer decidd to play up but i eventually managed to get them done.
7th November
today as i had not much work to do i was able to make a good start on my animation project in martins class, thankfully Shane told up the deadline was Monday instead of today so i had more time which was needed, so i had nothing to do until Monday.
10th November
today after much hardship and audio mixing i managed to finish editing my animation, now all thats left to do is upload it to moodle along with everything else.
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