Final Peice. "Once i caught a shark alive"

My final peice, from the text "kites hung in the sky like paper shark roaming for their prey".I have looked at the theme of manipulation and mix media .I am not completely satisfied with this final peice as it does not run smoothy due to the lighting problems.

final peice

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Final Piece

my final animation

This is my final animation. I am really pleased with the outcome because I thought it might look a bit messy and too much because of all the different types of fonts and materials I used, however I think it looks quite interesting, which is what I was aiming for. I'm also really happy with the skeleton, especially at the end with the heart beating and the camera zooming in and then the skeleton holding its heart.

final animation

my animation is based on a fairytale themed story book, each individual page has different animations happening, my hand also turns each page revealing my chosen sentance.

Final Piece!

                                                        
Here is my final piece.
I animated a series of three continuous pages of my chosen sentence using a variety of materials (wire, string, sticks, acrylic paint, fabric, grease paper, collage & basic fine liner sketches) and also animating individual words too.
1st page: ''It was as if the entire cabin..''
2nd page: ''were filled with the tasteless odorloss fumes of powerfull romantic-sexual gas..''
3rd page: ''and only a spark was needed to create an explosion..''

Temptation 5

the final animation in my series is where i spill sugar on the table and i write words in it. i think that it looks really good and works well with a simple font and would have been harder to read with a flowy font.

Temptation 3

This is the third animation in my series. It is a wine glass that is filled with collage pieces and i then used Photoshop to make the wine look like it is spilling out.

This is my final piece, i have choosen to use words that are similar to the sentence as i feel that the whole sentence may take away from the feeling of the characters, which is how the reader relates to the characters. I like this animation as i feel its interesting and i like how the end of the sentence then comes down into tears and then into a puddle, this therefore shows the feelings that are related to the words.

Final Piece didnt work ouit as well as hoped.

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Final Piece

My Final Animation

This is my final animation, I have worked all day on it, and I am quite proud of the result, I hope you like it :)

'Gas' animation - development

                                             
Here, I animated my self writing the word, 'gas' with charcoal and then smudging it at the end.
I thought this worked out really well because smudging suited the word and gave it a 'gas' feeling.

Rolling Man

Here I have experimented with an idea I had of what could happen to the man in my previous animation after he'd dropped from the window. I plan to experiment with various backgrounds both hand-drawn and collaged.

Final Idea (Enslaved by nature itself)

This is my final animation.

FINAL!!

As obviously stated, this is my final piece!
I like it, but there are many things which could have been done better, especially the camera shake. I also think that it looks messy, in a more negative way than a positive one! However, I think it looks good considering this project was really difficult for me, particularly spending so much time on photoshop! But I did the best I could :)

Un-edited Final

I put this animation on the blog to show the 'before and after' effect on my animaton. This was originally just going to be my final piece but it obviously looks unfinished and the illustrations aren't bold enough, therefore, I commited to spending roughly 8 hours on photoshop editing, and nearly died in the process, but it was all worth it in the end!

final piece decision

On my last post i said it was going to be the first attempt of my final piece. Well I changed my mind and decided that was going to be my final piece and that I was going to show what I could change with a screenshot in my book

Another old trial to show the jungle people.

putting all the old ones on the blog.

This was an old trial i made just to try out the technique and effect.

its pretty awful.

Finall Piece

This is my fanal Piece. I listened to some of my peer feedback and made some slight changes to one of my initial ideas that I liked.

CW FINAL animation

This is my final animation in which i used stones and coffee granuals to make it. I feel this animation was simple but effective, all though this animation took a long time to create. This animation shows clearly what my sentence i chose was about.

TL Final Animation

This is my final animation of the animation project. The animation is all drawn and used the same materials as I planned. This is based on the sentence I had chosen to create an animation out of.

Temptation 2

the second in a series of anuimations about temptation. this one is me eating a bar of chocolate and screwing up the wrapper. i think it looks good but it needs something else to make it look different.

stones development

In this animation I am practicing using stones to make an animation. The use of stones will be quite effective if i make the animation longer and take more time on it.

Finall Piece

Text in Tummy

I created this animation from the sentance I chose 'A flock of butterflies riots in my stomach' 

The first thing that came to mind was pregnancy and how pregnant woman must feel. 

Final develpoment a thought happening and comeing true.

With this animation I took the idea of the glass house breking, with a memory effect around the outside. I also did it in pencil but then added colour to show that her memory has started to come true and that it is happeing whilst she is thinking. I also developed this idea by haveing a rock go through the the glass house and break the glass.

Moth in mouth

This was my fisrt initial idea.

Temptation 1

this animation looks good because ti flows pretty well but i think that it needs to be zoomed in a little as you can see the table edge. i think that the money nderneither the cake works well and i like that the money is moving. i will try again with the animation zoomed in.

Plan of my Final Design without Text

This will be my final design, however without my sentence included in it yet. The text will come in after the black skeleton with the white background and before the white skeleton with the black background.

This is a experiment looking at text.

My Final Animation

My Final Animation

Development with fine liner

With this design I took my idea and my peers idea and then tested out the idea. I used fine liner to see if it would make the image stand out which is does. I also did little squares each time just to show a ruff idea of what the animation could look like, that explaines the animation in each box (seperated from each other).

Developing my final idea

Here I have tryed doing a quick version of my final idea to see if the movement of the human in the pictures flows. I think i need to take more photos as the human walks to make it flow more.

Falling man

Here I have developed my first initial idea of a man escaping from a prison window. I used photographs of my pencil drawings for each frame. The rubbing out of the previous drawing left a smudgy trail which I decided to leave in, as it looked as if the man had slid down a wall, similiar to the trail's left behind by the figures in 'Blu's' MUTO animation.

ks the shark and his boot

experiment

burning paper

ink drop dragon

ink droplet dragon

this is the first attempt at my final piece

i think im going to zoom in more so the main piece is bigger and also change the font ive used on the title as it doesnt really fit in well with the full animation

other then that, im pleased so far how its come out

Heart Beating (Development)

T-shirt temptation

the words temptation is not evil on a T-shirt. i took a photo after writing each letter. i think the font i chose worked well but it was very difficult to keepit consistant.

Bottle

This animation was me trying to create one of the aspects of my final animation. i tried to make the liquid look like it was being drained from the bottle then it falling over. but it didnt quite work.,

Words in a shape of a heart on the whiteboard

I like this idea as it shows the shape of the heart however it incorporates the words from my sentence therefore showing the meaning of the heart and the way that i have shown how the words mean to me.

development animation 2

Development - Try 4

I have used post-it notes and took still photos to animate the first four words of my sentence ''It was as if..''.
I animated my self  'writing' on the notes, peeling them off and putting them on the table one by one. I think this worked out really well too because it flows really well and I would also like to use this idea in my final piece as well.

For this animation I developed my first initial idea into a hand-drawn animation.

development animation 1

Development - Try 3

I have made an animation for a part of my sentence which was,
'filled with the tasteless, odorless fumes of powerful-romantic sexual gas..''
Because my animation is based on Typography, I played around with different types of materials (fabric, collage, acrylic paint, lino printing and basic fineliner sketching) and I created a page in my book with all of this combined together. I animated this page by basically using my hand and pointing at words, opening folded up bits in the order of my sentence. I really like how all of this worked out therefore I will plan to use this idea in my final piece too.

ks edited sharky

I croped the some of the frames from sharky,but I need to add more slides in it to make it look effective

ks sharky

An experiment with white board



Dissolving

I think this animation is my best so far. This is developed even further from the previous animation and I have made it longer aswell as doing more with the text. I really like the illustrations and the way the image changes, on the other hand though, I don't like the text at the end because I don't think it suits the rest of the animation and it looks quite rushed.

Bursting bubbles

This is a further developement after my typography one: ('I sometimes wonder if this is all down to me'). I wanted to try out what an animation would look like which included both illustrations and typography, however, I don't particularly like the typography in this but this animation was more for testing. However, I do really like the general look of it, it is simple but works well. I personally think it would look better with colour, and for my final piece I will most likely add colour using photoshop.

I sometimes wonder if this was all down to ME

I really like this typography animation, I drew the letters on different pieces of coloured paper and for each new arrangement and movement of the letters i took a picture.

Doing this animation has enabled me to visually see that when I use typography for animation it works better, this has developed my ideas further and I now want to include typography, whereas when I started this project I just wanted to do illustrations.

words

words I don't like this itlooks more like a movie

More development

Glass house made out of newspaper.

With this animation I used newspaper (not stuck down) to create my glass house (silhouette) and then I had a white piece of paper in a ball hitting the glass house to "Shatter" the panel so it would all dismantle. The white ball then would slowly change the colour of the glass house into white paper instead of newspaper. then as you can see the paper then breaks away from being a glass house into being a big mess. The reason why I did this is because I was playing with the idea of newspaper but finding different ways to create the glass house and to make it vanish. A way to improve this would be to maybe have more typography so maybe have words writen on the newspaper to make it look more like it is typography.

Typography glass house

On this image I took the sentence and made it into a glass house cracking. I just simply repeated the words over and over again. This is a development of the drawn glass house but including typography. A way that I would improve this would to add the person and see if it would work the same as it would drawn. I would maybe also play with colour to see if it would look better in colour or in pencil.

"Broken"

With this animation I simply just did a range of different texts and then added colour. A way to develop this image would be to have the glass house pop up behind the text or infront. With this Animation I used the word "Broken" out of the sentence and focused it all around the one word to make it affective. I also used the same colours throughout so it would not look weird or the wrong colours would class with the right colours and then make it not loook appealing.

For this animation I continued to experiment with the technique of taking photos of different stages of pencil drawings and using a different medium for the eye. I have developed my initial idea of having an egg split open to reveal something come out from inside as well as responding to my research of David Shrigley in the obviously hand drawn style of my animation.

for this animation i based it on two artists ive researched

the muted patchwork piece is styled on vanessa janss work

the bright coloured work is based on huck magazines illustrations and designs

i really think this is a good way of adding texture and colour into work without being too brash

Real Heart And Words

In this animation i have experimented using a paper massey heart and then put holes and cut into it to show that the heart is broken and then i wrote on it to show the sentence i have choosen .

CV build up of trust

Here, i had chosen an upsetting sentence so i tried to show her emotions in the animations rather than the words. this represents the trust she builds in herself and everyone around her while shes growing up then all of a sudden its taken and broken into pieces.

Light Means Grow Book

This animation could ahve been better if i changed the materials i used to graw the flower. i think that the font could have been better because i just used a stencil instead of drawing it myself. I do however like the idea of the animation and next time i will add the font in on the computer or at least draw it on the computer to make it look neater.

Light Means Grow

for this animation i have made a flower grow out of newspaper. i think that this animation would be better if i changed the material to tisdsue paper because for the flower it would look like petals instaed of a ball fo newspaper.

Skyscraper Experiment

BW Skyscraper Experiment

SK We must enslave these people

I wanted it to seem as i was interacting with my animation to make it seem more life like.

developing text animation

Clouds in heaven

Heart Puzzle Animation

This is a heart puzzle animation in hands. I ahev used different colour shows that not all hearts are perfect, also i have left spaces to show that the heart is not complete therefore it has been broken.

pencil animation

 pencil animation of a man running and falling, this animation, inloved taking lots of pictures of a pencil drawing, taking as many pitures of a small event, to make it fluent.

typography, paper screwing up

Using typography, by slowly screwing up a piece of paper, which shows a new word each time. This is to try a method of showing typography.

flying dragon

My First Part of Development (Skeleton)

With this animation I drew out a skeleton with chalk and took photographs of it gradually so that when I played it fast it would look more fluent. I did this idea because in my quote it says the words "deep inside" therefore i wanted to show the emotion of feelings deep inside the human body, which is why I made the heart start beating. If I could change something I would make the font a lot more interesting because my main part of the project I decided to do was typography.

City trash

This animation did not turn out how I planned it to. This is because the first pictures of the animation were taken on a seperate camera but were lost and secondly, my picture taking is not equal and shows more than just the page, this makes it look scruffy and I did not have to time to crop these pictures. However, I like the idea itself and this will definately help me to develope.

dragon on whiteboard

Mad Scientist

This is a 'tester' animation, however, I don't particularly like the illustration itself, but the animation of the fluid going through the pipes works well. I can now see how this idea can be developed, for example, use other materials for the illustration like chalk or collage or oil painting.

As my sentence is about school, I have taken pictures of someone reading a book

Memory effect

With this design i decided to create a memory effect animation with newspaper and a little drawing. The reason why i picked the newspaper is because memorys are related to grey never bright colour, so I used newspaper to show this idea and it is alos useing another material. A way of improveing this image cpuld be to change the image inside the buble and also have the pictures being take in on spot instead of moving around the picture, i was also zoom into the picture more so that you can see the detail inside the memory.

this was such a fun animation to make

although i had to wait for the paint to dry, it was worth it

well that was until the paint started to hurt after a while 

KS origami shark

college makes me dizzy

dragon yawning

This is my animation development of the background that i might be having for my final designed animation.

Lino printing

On this design i used lino printing by carveing letters into the material and only useing the letters to make a big impact instead of useing images. I also did the words backwards because one of the artists that I researched I like so I used their idea that was simpilar for insporation. A way to improve this would to maybe add a picture.

Glass heart, turning into a tear drop.

This image was my next development of my idea of having a glass house. I changed the glass house to a glass heart because its still link to the book and the idea of the heart breaking shows that the glass house breaking and that both things are very important to this character. I decided to add the tear dropping from the heart just to show the sadness and to show her emotion of a running stream of tears. A way to improve this would be to have the tear drop looking the same throughout and also changing the heart from moveing away from the tear to the tear moveing away from the heart. I created this animation by drawing on my fridge (it has a white background) with a blue marker.

SK Chain Face

I created this animation using a pencil, a rubber and a camera.

CV a walk home

this was experimenting for graphics

SK Death by collage

This was the first animation I created entirely out of collage. It allowed me to see how a collaged animation looked and has given me more insight into how to develope my work.

chocolate temptation

I tried to carve a word into chocolate to see how easy or difficult it was. i found out that it is rather difficult to carve a curved letter so whatever font i use has to be rather simple. i will try to use different types of chocolate to develop my animation.

I added pictures of me walking through a field whilst the cupcake flowers are growing.

attempted to make another animation for development

this time i did it in half collage half drawn work

im not as keen on this method as its too jumpy for my sentance

i prefer the last one i did

Idea one of "What if the glass house has been broken."

With this animation I took a picture of each small section of the image just by drawing a glass house and then a person walking on and throwing a rock, shattering the glass house. I think this worked well as a first idea of my title from the kiss book which is "What if the glass house has been broken." A way of improveing this could be to have the camera in one place and not moveing, just so you can focuse on the image more. I would also cut the image dow a little too.

This piece was drawn by hand, photographed and edited in photoshop. It is part of my development.

Girl with incredibly long neck

okay so i had to make another animation

and this one i have to say im super super proud of

after two hours, 630 photos and a major bout of hand cramp

here it is :)

Text Experiment 3

This is my 3rd attempt at animating text. Here I combined the techniques I used in the two previous animations and I think this one works better.

TL trial 5

Experimenting using biro pen to draw the animation (no shading added just the outlines of the animation)

Development Tryout 2

Development - Try 2

In this animation, I poured bath salt crystals bit by bit and spelled the word ''Filled'' (which was another word from my chosen sentence). I took still images as I did this and put it all together using Windows Movie Maker. I like how it worked out but some of the images i took weren't clear and they were a bit fuzzy which sort of spoiled it a bit.

"Slipt" animation

Animation of stones made from collage to create the word "slipt", the stones are lots of small cut up magazines. I like this idea to make the illustrations.

CV christening experimenting

This is a part of my sentence that i chose to use, to experiment on ways i could present it.

Development Tryout 1

Development - Try 1

I have took still photos of writing and animating the word, ''Explosion'' which was the last word of my chosen sentence. I think it worked out really well and liked the idea of rubbing the word out after I wrote it.

House across the river

Alas i cannot swim

Oops

Boyfriend

Heaven

Heart pebble animation

I took influence from a piece of research i collect, this was of a heart painted on broken rocks, therefore i made it my own by using pebbles. I think this as it shows that a broken heart can be put back together.

Trapped in a glass
This was an experimental animation I created so i could develope my ideas futher. I used a white board and stop-frame photographs.

Drawn/ Collage a bit blurry so need to sharpen on photoshop.

 My second experiment on animation using photoshop.

Experimenting on different animation to see which one is the best for me to work with.

My trial animation of using the same technique of artist Blu not very good technically but trying out the idea.

not the best

CV Trial 2

This was my second trial developed around the sentence 'the world is your oyster.' Here i started experimenting with colouyr within my animation.

CV Trial 1

This was my first ever trial/animation. i chose a simple short word to deal with to start off with.

CV The World Is Your Oyster

This is my animation to show 'The World Is Your Oyster.'

CV Quarter To You Trial

This was my Second Ever animation. This was just a trial to link to my sentence, 'Quarter To You.'

CV Quarter To You

This is my animation i mdae in graphics based around the sentence ' Quarter To You.'
This was my fourth animation.

Go Everywhere, Do Everything, See Everyone 2

Here I was just experimenting with a continuous animation where the end is the start. However it was unfinished.

Lonely People

This animation is made from frames that have been drawn in my book. i drew them as a whole page and then cropped them in photoshop. i enjoyed drawing them in my book and seeing them made into an animation. however i dont think this is the best way to make an animation. it doesnt look right when playing. i prefer using photographs.

City scape

This animation started as a visual response in my book but i liked how, when put together the images flowed and it shows a drawing in the making. Unfinished.

A kenco coffee animation by Chris Warland using coffee beans, each slide is a different photo. i found this really effective, i also enjoyed doing this animation, was alot of fun.

Heart Surgery

This was my first illustrated animation for the sentence: Keep Calm and Carry On. It allowed me to experiment further and how to make an animation from free hand drawings. This method was my favourite as it allowed me the most freedom and detail within my idea.

"The time of your life kept close to your heart"

This animation is my final trial and was not done on photoshop like all the other animations, it was created with water colours and paint. I just simply took a picture of the whole image and saved each section to creat an animation effect. I think this image has imporved from all the rest, but there is still room for improvement.

Because you're worth it

This is an animation created using photographs from the internet and fonts from photoshop. it was difficult to crop and size the images correctly but i think it worked much better than drawing words. i really liked using photographs because they are easy to manipulate once you know how. i liked making the fonts move around and it was easy due to the layers on photoshop. i did however use more frames this time and it looks a lot better, the movements flow more.

Keep Calm and Carry On

The third animation which allowed me to experiment with motion; when the tear runs down the face.

you either love it or hate it animaion by hand drawing the slides

TL trial 4 - Drawing

Hand drawn animation

Trial 4 - 12 frames of ''You can't blame gravity for falling in love''.

This was my first hand made animation. I created 12 frames using collage, acrylic paint, Photoshop and images to animate my sentence. I really liked the way it worked out but I think if i was to make more frames of Cupid's arrow falling down to Earth then it might have looked better as there are only a few frames showing this and it's not clear enough to show what's going on. I also think it's a too fast, that you might need to view it twice to actually read the sentence properly.

Trial 3 - ''I have five clocks in my life, and only one has the right time...''

This is my fourth trail which is like the third animation but here i am playing with the idea of an image and then takeing away the people so it becomes more of a memory effect. I also changed the colour and the layout of the writeing just to see which one would look better (with layout and colour).

I was a lone wolf

I used fonts in photoshop to create a sentance and saved each word as a different frame. i moved each word to a different place on the screen so when it played as an animation it looked like it was moving along the sentance. i liked using ready made fonts because it was neater than writing it myself. if i could have improved it i would have made more slides to make it longer.

Trial 2 - ''You can't blame gravity for falling in love''.

In this animation, I've used Photoshop to create frames and developed my skills from my first trial by playing around with images and fonts. 

TL trial 3

Animation co-operating with images along with words and sentences

Flanders field

This was supposed to be attempt number three and show progression from my first two trials but instead it looks like a PowerPoint slid show, i think this is because the background in now fluent, the images are inconsistent and amateur.

animation 4

First Trial - ''SomeOne''.

For my first trial, I used Adobe Photoshop and wrote the word 'Someone' bit by bit in different frames to create an animation.

This is my third trail, which is "The time of you life, kept close to your heart", which i found as a bit of research. With this animation as you can see i have used two different colours to contrast each other. I also had the last two words come up together to make more of a powerful effect. To get across to the viewer that these two words are important.

Elly =)

This was my very first attempt at animation.