In the process for planing my animation I thought about character design and facial expressions I may use throughout my animation. There will only be two characters in my animation, the teacher who is an adult and the main character which is a female in her teens.

Here are a few character designs.

Animation proposal feedback and ideas

I need to think more about the materials I am going to use for my animation. I plan to draw out my animation on tracing paper and take a picture of each frame I draw. I will use a light box to trace my animation  this will make it easier to draw and a lot of animators who do traditional animation use light boxes.

The  feedback I got was mostly positive I did get told that my animation would have to take a long time and effort. Therefore I will have to come back during my spare time and do extra work or finish the animation in my free time. I understand that I should probably do a draft animation to see of what I plan to do is doable.

In my animation I am going to have my character talk about a life at school. This will be something that has happened to the character. My character will be telling a story. To make my animation successful, I will make what happens relatable. My target audience will be from 12-18, people of that age will understand the animation because it would make been something they might have experienced.

Animation Proposal

Travis Knight

Travis Knight directed the recent Kubo and the Two Strings. Using stop motion with advanced technology it made the film look modern and amazing. The amount of time spent on creating this film
This process involves creating real models to animate, some animators use clay animation to create characters. the set design for Kubo and the Two Strings was all created by hand and metal beams are used like skeletons to hold the characters and help them to move. The process of stop motion is incredibly  long. These days animators who use stop motion also use computers. In the film Kubo the computers are used for the background, green screens are used for this process.

This Time Lapse shows how much attention the director and animators paid to make the animation run smoothly.


So basically this is some bts footage of the makings of Kubo.

Plan for my animation- Sketches and concept

Jan Svankmjer

Georges Melies was a French film director during the 1900's. He was always interested in film and when the Lumiere Brothers presented their Cinematography to the public in 1895, Melies was part of the audience. This then inspired him to take a interest in moving pictures.

Melies built his own camera, then built his own glass-enclosed studio. He believed that there were more possibilities to Cinematography so, he made his own sets, wrote scripts, and used actors to film stories.

Because Melies had a history in being a magician he used this to his advantage. Melies exploited basic camera tricks such as, stop motion, slow motion, double exposure and more.

During his time in the film industry Melies "made more than 400 films" and he specialised in "depicting extreme physical transformations of the human body". However film didn't always work for him because the growth in the industry sent him out of business and he later died of poverty.

The Cat and Bear

Edward Muybridge

In the first week of animation we looked at a British photographer called Edward Muybridge. Muybridge was Born in England in April 1830 then passed away in May 1904. He was famous for his photographic work in motion. Muybridge was one of the first photographers to take pictures of moving animals in a sequence of shots.
Muybridge invented the Zoopraxiscope, this was a device that displayed motion pictures. It was considered to be the first movie projectors. 

Foxy and Doggo animation