Ok I want to do some interesting stuff now

I haven't done any of my own animation work recently...and I just realised I've really begun to miss it.

There was a time when I would come into the animation studio from nine in the morning (when it opened) till late evening just because I wanted to. I'm in the midst of doing a couple of animations on Maya so I should actually try and finish them. I'm annoyed at myself for slipping out of this habit.

Oh and I must do more hand drawn animation. Ok its hard...but oddly kinda fun...

Oh, oh, oh annnnd I've started work on something big. I'll be exploiting my free time in the summer hols to get it truly grounded. Hopefully when I've got to a decent point I'll start to blog some of it....



...I'll keep you posted.

Ok, Finished

We finnished it a couple of days ago actually.

Say Yes, Say No Title Sequence

So there it is. Over all I think we did pretty good. The pacing is nice, it has a good uniform sense of continuity (it's not unnecessarily sporadic) and the animation is relatively smooth with just enough jitter to compliment the hand-made appeal. Vwalah!

Fluffy Mugs!

Ok so since my last post we've progressed pretty far since. We've almost finished the final cut...then there's just a bit of flapping about on After Effects.
We aren't at that stage yet and anyway I was planning to talk a bit about the fluffy mugs I had to make for the animation.

You get the idea...

I made these for the animation as after all it is about the DADA movement and one of the artists at the time like to make fluffy cutlery so tadaah! They are made out of pieces of Tropicana juice boxes, fake fur, thread, glue and staples. Oh and they were sprayed with hair spray so that when they were handeled in the animation prosses the fur would not shift. If I had not done that the fur would just appear to flinch and twitch randomly as if on their own accord. Ya see? I thinks about these things.

I should maybe try talking a little more about how we've been working. Well this stop motion animation works on four tears. The bottom is a sheet of rotating newspaper which, as we can rotate in a loop, easily gives the illusion of an endless stream of newspaper. The next three tears consist of glass. We then place the props on the glass an animate them accordingly. Above that is the camera stand.
Usually when we get round to the actual animation one person is in charge of the camera, another animating the props and the third person rotates the newspaper. We then swap round every so often. And that dudes is our method.