Animation

today we looked over our animation tht we had done for oyr film and noticed that the lighting wasnt eficiant so we had to change alot and also wen we got a camera the bateries ran out so then we had a chat and another 3 terms we have used in animation is frame rate, onion skinning , tweening .
FRAME RATE : frame rate is the speed of the single frames used to make an animation the desired speed is 24 frames per second to ensure a smooth flowing finish .
ONIONSKINNING : onionskinning is the term used wen u reduce the apasity of an image and place on top of another to line them up exactly we done this wen we done our flick books to ensure the best qaulity finish this is in reference to our animated GIF'S.
TWEENING: tweening is wen u have a starting image and end image and the frames tht get u from start to end are tweening so that u have a smooth motion when finished.

stirling uni trip !

yesterday we atended a lecture at stirling uni  about the digital age wich basically means as we were born after 1980 technolagy is an intriget part of our lifes  and we use it every for everything such phn calls and txts and music and sooo much more. my first impression of stirling uni was gd  was a bit taken back with the shear size of it it had a food court travel agents  newsagents pharmecy the library had minted shelves they were atched to chains on the floor and as u spun tthe handle on the end of it they moved apart .revealing more space te library had 3 levels  and also had pods with tvs and pcs in them to study we also went into the mc roberts centre which is a centre for art and music. we found a puppet animation leaflet and  we are trying to arange a trip to enhance our learning .

24th 03 11

today i completed the music for my animation sequance it is exactly the rite length for our sequance.

4/3/11

today in dees we had a meeting and discused our story board ideas we came up with 2 and is trying to decide beetween them .

3/3/11

today in animation we had a meeting to produce a production schedule we discused our timelines and our roles to play in the making of this animated title sequance i am project manager my job is to oversee and help with anything and make sure this is finished a week before due date wich is the 6th may  and also make sure finiall project is at the best standard .

title sequance reaserch

we looked at many title sequences they were all about 2 minutes long give or take the longest one was 3 minutes. A title sequence is the method by which films or tv programs present there title or cast members or both using visual aids and sound iv found that sound plays a vital part in a successful title sequence if there is no sound then the atmosphere is not the same after all the purpose of a title sequence is to grab your attention and set the mood and theme. The first title sequence was 1936 the film was called showboat.

We looked at many title sequences today but there was a couple that stood out and i think i could use there ideas to make my own one was:

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN: It was done in the style of stop motion and was very airlined themed it was only 2 mints 34 seconds long the music reminded me of being in an airport.

ED WOOD: this idea was very good it had some stop motion in it with the tenticle coming out the water but it started in a cemetery with all the actors names were on the grave stones it was 3 minits long which is pretty long .

documentry research

today in big johns class we were looking at documentries and directors of documentries or presenters so im going to tell u some thing bout a couple of them the first is michael moore who was born on the 23rd april 1954 and has done documentries incudin farenheit 911 wich explores the twin towers and all the goings on behind like he goes on to say that osama bin laden was sitting in   a meeting with george bush when towers came down also going to tell you about david atttenborough who does nature documentries he has done things like the blue planet.  also morgan spurlock who done supersize me he basically eat mcdonalds for 30 days and had medical tests as he done so to see how much damage he done to his body he has also done thing on the american health service as has michael moore and Waheed khan originally of pakistani origin he was an actore but changed his profresion he had a go at being a camera man and then produced things like dating the asian way and black britain: nobodys child.

BBC Trip

last night we all went to te BBC to watch the program life of reilly getting filmed i saw what actually goes into a nights show was interesting to see how many people it actually takes to work cameras and the booms   there were four boom miks.

title sequances

today we were reaserching animated title sequances as we will be making one for our zombie film i looked at many but one i really enjoyed was the qauntum of solace title sequance its very good and flows really well like bullets that turn into sun very very eye catching.

pixar animation.

i was watching pixars 25 golden moments documentry and picked out some interesting points that i did not know like Billy  crystal turned turned down a role in TOY STORY but played mike wowsouzky  in monsters ink and also that actors usually record sepratly for pixar films ut in the case of mike and sully in monsters ink the actors recorded together so that they could start interacting with each other i.e finishing each others sentances etc.
also WOODY from TOY STORY was origianally a selfish character he was to becme selfless as the film progressed but joyhn lassater found that people would loose interest if it was that way so they made woody nice from start. John Ratzenburg has stared in every pixar animation.

11/2/11

today in dees we watched our three stop motion animations ours was the best i feel scotts anamation was called devils cola i gave it a 8 out of 10 because it was a good atempt and funny then we watched shauns gave thata 3 out of ten as it was tooo short i laughed tho he he

11/2/11

10/2/11

today we made an animation a stop motion animation to be  precise  it was of a crab and seahorse fighting it was fun and very time consuming i really really lyked it .

big johns

today in big johns class we learned about difrent video artist the firstg one we learned about was douglass gordan who done the film zidane basically 17 camerasfollowed himn about the park in one of his matches.

and then nicoli fuglsig directed the sony bravia advert with the bouncy balls 250 000 bouncy balls were realesed down a san fransisco street  the reasen the bright balls were used because sonys slogan is couler like no other

then following that was the paint advert and that was directed by jonathan glazer it weas set in a condemed tower block in toryglen glasgow was coverd in 70 000 liters of enviromentally freindly paint .

animation

hello there guys i have made me a little animation it is called animation 2.1 can u tell me how to get how to get to sesame street ? i hope u enjoy it i had to use photoshop and onion skin each layer to create this finished piece .

27/1/2011today in hannahs we watche the pixar documentry and then f

today in hannahs we watche the pixar documentry and then done a quiz on it it was very interesting

13/1/11

today in hannahs animation class we were making flip books we started bye putting together a rough idea of a basic story line and then we started drawing out that idea in more detail so we could produce a flip book to preduce images tht just changed ever slightly so we can watch them at 24 frames per second to make them move.

07/01/11

today in animation with dee we wenttt over what we learned yesterday and then we watched a small piece of our choosen animated film and spoke bout it infront of class the four types of snimation were cut out,stop motion ,drawin and cgi .

animatin 06/01/11 hannah keba

animation is whear we witness  still pictures come to life and move . the way we do this is to shoot every single picture and then play them back at a rate of 24 pictures per second making the pictures seem to move it is a type of opticall illusion .
two old ways of animation are: THAUMATROPE(1824) a thamatrope is a piece of card atached to two peices of string the card has diferent images on each side but the images are related i.e a bird and a bird cage the string is then spun and makes the images seem to merge together and move.
   FLIP BOOK(1868) flip books were another step to bring us closer to modern day animation they way they work is the same image is drawn on every page but slighty diferent so that wen we flip the pages together reallyfast we get the images moving .

the two contemapary forms of animation are: 2D animation is whearwhear figures are created using 2d bitmap graphics to create and edit charecters it uses computer added methods of old versions of animation.
         3D animation is whear it uses advanced rendering to create textures etc to create the feeling that u are actually in the animation.
The diferences beetween early and contempory animation is tht technolagy has changed so much that we are able to use more advanced ways of animition and produce so much higher qaulity in the animation itself there is also more funding for animations.
My favroute animation is avatar purley for the fact tht the cameras used in avatar were developed for that film it is the best animation i have ever seen .