stop motion animation PG version

When first working on this project we were split into three different groups, i was with Waqar, Ali, Shawwal and Saddique, our team was called Team Alpha, when working on our project we came up of a mind map of what we could do for our stop motion animation. In the end we went with the combination of two ideas, mine and Waqar, waqar idea was to have a fight scene in a disco between iron man and hulk, mine was just a mega fight between an armada of different heros, simple but effective. Once we had our plan we got in preparations for our stop motion away. Ali was team leader, I was deputy and i was also responsible for bringing in action figures as well as sound and editing, Waqar was responsible for the main part of sound and editing, Saddique was responsible for lighting and floor design and Shawwal was responsible for Photographing and background design. The first thing we had to work on before our animation was our scenery, we did think of using the enviroment around us as our scenery and the objects around us as a comical joke but we went with our disco background, when we were working on our background we had the idea to use light with sweet rappers as colour flitters to give it a more disco effect. Once we had our scenery sorted we got to work on the animation itself, the first scene was to be iron man dancing with two lady friends then hulk would walk into the scene and boot iron man on his ass, that scene was suppose to trigger over fight scenes. The second scene was to robotic figures walk into the scene, one of these robots would rip of the other robot arm and repeatly beat with it, this scene would end with hulk smashing down in on the scene. The third scene is spiderman comes flying across the scene hitting the wall then Wall-e would roll in and repeatly ram spiderman (which look kinda wrong) until spiderman punched his head off. When building up our animation we did face problems that we had to compermises with, one of them being that we could use the lights all the time because of the heat it produced, the floor that we stuck our figures on wasn't helping because the floor itself was baggy causing the floor to be pulled by the weight of the figures being pulled when leaning and the camera for some odd and annoying reason it kept zooming in and out which we weren't able to control but it did give a nice affect. When we finished our project we were given copies of our animation to edit on ourself which at sometimes i repeatedly kept going back to slightly edit and improve on. the main bit was already render into an AVI movie, with some scenes we had to speed up to give a normal motion speed as well as repeating some scenes to extend the fight scenes to make it look better (this was part of the plan). The main bit was up and all we had to do was to clean it up a bit and make it look professional. I had an idea for the beginning that was to have an age rating and voice over which i was able to aquire because i would affort about the apporiate age as well as put (techniuqely) a voice over in it and also for a beginning sequence was to have this tranformer come into the scene and tranform into memory stick (which i had, of amazon) and plug itself into my computer and then our animation would show up, we also had a star wars theme title sequence come up with the theme tune of course to say whats what about our animation. Throught the main bit we placed music, apporiate music for the scene, to give it a more disco feeling, which when the scene were and was gonna change i had the music fade in and out. When we were gonna change scenes we did give explanation to what was about to happen. For the end credits i had this idea when i was watching the film Con air were when the credits came up it had the actors face come up with there names and what they did which i thought we could put on our credits as well as some silly little jokes, I also thought of putting a sort of secret ending, not one of those ones that suggest that there is gonna be another animation but just something totaly random.

If i was to compare this stop motion animation to a  professional example i would say that we presented in a professional manor but due to the inconvience of the crap camera we had to deal with i would say we were let down in some areas but i would say that we did film quite well.

When we showed our animation to over people they were impressed with the amount of work that we put into as well as how we tried to make it look professional as far as we could form it into and just because was just amazing.

The only thing that i think that we could improve about our animation was to get a proper camera so it wouldn't zoom in & out all the time as well as adding some more scenes of stop motion animation so it wouldn't of seem that we put are effort into one thing.

the only thing that i would of done diffenetly was get a bigger enviroment as well as some over scenes, to me it just doesn't seem impressive considering that we just used one enviroment with different angles. 

For me i didn't learn much because i have an average knowlegde of stop motion animation on how it works, how to use it, how to make it as well as editing it on movie maker a part from greater detail on how it started out, how it was made and so on.

I just growed a jet

I thought of this animation when i was getting stuck into my stop animation course work at shipley college, at that point i was researching stop motion animation work on youtube, looking at others people work and there were some real unbelieveble lego animation, one of them was gears of war lego, another was halo mega blocks which has a storyline and to be continued moments which i thought was pritty nifty. At that point i was thinking about what would it be like if someone did a stop motion animation on lego where they showed the lego model being built and it just looked like it was growing and i thought how hard can it be. At that point i was thinking abot building the lego death star, i knew the difficulty of the operation but i thought i would be a great achivement and it would look good, the problem with this was the the price of it which i was not willing to pay. so i thought around the problem i look around for my lego figures and i did it on my mega blocks lego jet fighter. once i had anything sorted i had to dismantel my jet fighter then using the the instruction manual to re-build it. I started by sticking the first block on to the table so i new thats were by jet fighter was being built the whole process of building my jet was pritty simple until i got up to the wings which required the wings to be built sepratly then put on, what i did was built the wings on the jet fighter which was really hard, it was like try to hit a fly with a bazooka but i was able to in the end... after that bit the rest was a breeze. when that bit was done i did the usual editing bits to my video, title, credits and a wee bit of music.

Why spiderman can't beat iron man

This is what it basically says as a the title, this idea came to me as a comical joke of why punching iron man would be funny considering the fact punching anything of such hard mass would hurt and then i turn that factor into something funny. So i had an iron action figure which was one main part sovled then i had to have another character of same size, where the character Bio could be close to the factor of punching something thats hard that would hurt. I decided to go with Spiderman, The animation would go something like this, Iron man would hover down ( that part was hard, i had to use something that would look like the thrusters of iron man feet, I used silver rapping of a sweet, then i had to hold iron man head and keep a steady balance with each shot but i knew having the camera zoomed in at the right angle i could hold iron man without my hand been seen and also hide iron mans feet without the sudden disappeance of iron man thrusters, after that i zoomed out so all could be seen.) After that part iron man would pritty much stand still through out the rest of the animation, spiderman would walk into the scene and then punch iron man ( on contact of spiderman punching iron man i had the sound of something that sounded like metalic being punched fitted in) After that spiderman would react the same way a normal person would when punching something real hard, then Iron man would punch spiderman knocking him down. After that point i thought it would be funny that i have spiderman rise back up and head butt iron man in the head and ends with spiderman falling back down. Once i did that the finishing scene would be Iron man would walk away into the distance and just a little something comical spiderman hand would come back up. ( the end scene, I was thinking i would end it the same way when they had a mega fight with peter griffen and the chicken in family guy)

Why you shouldn't cheat in a race...

This video is one of the first stop motion animation videos that i did a long time when i was first experimenting, i found the whole experience real tiering and irriating, the fact of the matter is that i had to be real patitence at times while taking a photo then moving it slightly then taking nother photo and continuing that process as well as charging the camera up when it need which extended the time by three hours or less. This whole video took me about one whole day. Once i'd done taking the pictures that i wanted i then connected it to my computer, imported the pictures into monkey jam where i render it into an AVI.movie. from that point i opened up Movie Maker and open up my AVI.movie were i edit it, adding a title and credits as well as sound effects. Orignally this movie was suposely longer then showen but unfortunaly the camera was positioned at the wrong angle cause the whole video to look weird in some scenes so i edit it out to make it more real.

Finale parts of planning

Props: Chairs Tables Bar Disco ball Background: Bar Club These are the finale things we need for our animation

Prezi

Stop motion Animation Recon on Prezi

Here's a link to my first done prezi on my trip to the media musem in research to stop motion animation