Animation evaluation.
I do like cartoons but I was never interested in how they were made or making my own. When I was told I would be working on animation I sighed because that’s not what I’m interested in. However, this was an opportunity to learn something new and create something. I was eager and willing to participate.
After an in depth explanation of what animation is from Steve, I got an idea of what animation was. Steve also showed me an example of animation, and told me what he expected me to come up with.
The rostrum comprised a motion picture camera pointing down at a table onto which the artwork could be placed and held flat under a hinged sheet of glass. The artwork could be panned incrementally to the left or right, up or down, and in rotation, and the camera could slide up or down, away or towards, the artwork to create a zoom effect.
Rostrum cameras are used for television, filmmaking and animation. (animating a still picture or object)
If you don’t know what 2d animation is then click this link and press play.
Before creating my first piece of animation I had a practice to get the hang of things. I cut a woman and a car from a magazine and started moving it slowly while taking photos of the movement. The camera I used was a canon 600d.
Playing my 2d animation back was actually fun. It seemed so simple to make and I was starting to like animation. I did plan to create a 2d animation involving football but I didn’t have the time and it was time to move on. I moved to the class late and that’s the reason I ran out of time.
After experiencing 2d animation I moved onto 3d animation. I already had an idea of what needed to be done so I didn’t need telling and I just jumped straight into it.
My first experience of 3d animation was taking photos and taking part in moving a manikin. I tried to make it dance. I really enjoyed doing this-but unfortunately I didn’t have time to put my 3d animation together. Green screen is used a lot in photo's, television and films. For example the weather man seems to be standing infron a large map but instead it's a greenscreen or blue background. If you look at the picture below, that is what was used to light up the manikin.
One piece of 3d animation I did manage to put together and edit was the action figure animation. We had to bring our own action figures in and work as a group of three to create it.
The 3d action figure animation I feel was a good piece. Obviously there is a lot of improvement that needs to be done within my work, like the quality and the length of the animation. I was happy with the 3d animation I had created though, as I’m a beginner.
I and class mates had a motion capture day playing kinect in the studio. If you don't know what kinect is then i'll give you a brief description. Kinect is a motion sensing input device for the X box 360. Kinect is like the eye toy for Playstation 2 but better and more advanced. Kinect(s) dual camera system allows you to use gestures to control the gameplay instead of using a control or control pad. You can also control kinect by speaking to it and it will listen. (Giving it an order to go on a game)
Kinect is useful in many ways as it can educate you and also be used to keep you fit. The purpose of kinect is to experience a new, enjoyable way of keeping fit-instead of sitting down.
I really enjoyed kinect. The experience was great. Researching Kinect i thought was interesting because there are many purposes for the device.
Within my research i learnt facial motion capture is taking the movement of someones face and converting this into a database with a camera or laser scanners. This database is then used to produce computer graphics, computer animations, movies and games in this case, real time avatars. Motion capture is related to the performance capture but is challenging and will require more attention because of it's requirement for higher resolution.
Within my research i learnt facial motion capture is taking the movement of someones face and converting this into a database with a camera or laser scanners. This database is then used to produce computer graphics, computer animations, movies and games in this case, real time avatars. Motion capture is related to the performance capture but is challenging and will require more attention because of it's requirement for higher resolution.
I then went to create my stop motion bag. Stop motion is where you take pictures of an object such as a bag step by step moving it slowly into different positions to make it into a film. While creating my stop motion on final cut pro i managed to take some screen shots, the video is posted on my blog.
I learnt a lot in the process of creating my pieces of animation and research. I’m still not interested in animation but I did enjoy learning about it.
If I were told to create my pieces of animation at home then I would have a problem, as I wouldn’t have the resources.
I didn’t have any complications during the process of making my pieces. I edited my animations on final cut pro. Final cut is what I’ve been using to edit my film projects with so I already had an idea on how to edit. When I first used final cut pro, I didn’t know what I was doing but as the weeks passed by I finally developed my skills.
If I were told to create my pieces of animation at home then I would have a problem, as I wouldn’t have the resources.
I didn’t have any complications during the process of making my pieces. I edited my animations on final cut pro. Final cut is what I’ve been using to edit my film projects with so I already had an idea on how to edit. When I first used final cut pro, I didn’t know what I was doing but as the weeks passed by I finally developed my skills.
