padlet account and evaluation

http://padlet.com/lauuhartley25/t8zuxz0myknd


From Marcus's comment on padlet i would defiantly next time make the lighting better and make sure i film the animation in a different place.
From Matthew's comment i would next time make sure that the background was not moving about but for this elmo animation i did mean to move the background about but it is something i will consider for next time.
From Gavin's comment i did want to add more to the animation and add more scenes to make it longer but i didn't have enough time to do that so that's something to think about also for next time.
From James's comment i need to change the lights and background so i know i need to film it in a different place next time.
Ethan gave me a really good comment so i appreciate that and all the other comments because i now know what i need to do next time.

elmo animation planning

I have printed out a background for elmo to be animated on to. I will then use the camera on the mac to take a series of images of elmo to make him look as if he is moving. This kind of animation is called a cut out and could take up to around an hour. So next lesson i will be doing the elmo animation. I have cut his legs and arms out so i can adjust the movement of him!http://itec-composer.eun.org/composer/download/file/applications/Padlet.png

I have used this elmo off google for the cut out.

And i will also be using a background that will be similar to the one below. I am planning for the background to move as well as the animation.

To start of i took a series of shots with the camera's that were plugged into the computer's and i formed the series of images to show elmo moving and the background moving also. I used I stop motion to take the series of images to produce the animation. The animation when being in I stop motion took a while because i had to make sure elmo moved the way i wanted him to and later i would add music so i needed to make sure elmo dancing would be in the same time as the music was playing. 

This is not my animation but this is how i used ISTOPMOTION to create my animation, i put the background on a table and put elmo on to the background i had cut his legs and arms off so i could move them differently, every time i moved the legs and arms i would take a picture so then when pressing play the elmo would move as well as the background, once i had finished taking the images i exported it and saved it into my file. 

I then put the animation into Imovie this is when i added a soundtrack and titles, i used the music from the actual elmo cartoon. 

animation 1900-1930

Animation within 1900 to the 1930's really took off with animators such a George Melies, Willis O'brien and Lotte Reiniger, these were also the main founding fathers of animation who really made animating take off!!

George Melies made a famous animation known as "a trip to the moon" in 1902 and the film is recorded at 16 frames per second. The film is based on two novels which are, from the earth to the moon and the first man on the moon.

Willis O'Brien was a stop motion animation pioneer who has been responsible for some of the images within cinema history, he has worked on films such as King Kong 1933 , The Lost World (1925) and Mighty Joe Young (1949)

Lotte Reiniger was an animator who released the first animated feature, The adventures of Prince Achmed in 1926 and is the oldest surviving feature film along side two others. Lotte created silhouette animation which is used within the adventures of prince achmed which is done by using cardboard and thin sheets of lead under a camera.

persistence of vision

Persistence of vision is a commonly-accepted although somewhat controversial theory which states that the human eye always retains images for a fraction of a second (around 0.04 second). This means that everything we see is a subtle blend of what is happening now and what happened a fraction of a second  ago. In film and video, this phenomena is often claimed to account for ability to perceive a sequence of frames as a continuous moving picture.




Persistence of vision. Your eyes have memory! The human eye forms an image on the retina - the light sensitive part - and transfers information about the image to the brain. Just like film in a camera, this process involves reactions. The light falling on the retina stimulates nerves. It takes time for the stimulation to clear. Normally we dont look at one thing for a long period, so further stimulation to clear. Normally we dont look at one thing for a long period, so further stimulation happens, over - riding the last image about 20 times a second. If we stare at things, however, things are different - especially when we stare at the dark and light areas ( as in the example below) Dark regions have little (or no) light coming from them so no stimulation occurs. The eye grows used to the image it sees , and the nerves go on relaying the same information over and over.

In the initially strange, example below the brain is confused by what it sees, and tries to add detail to it. Only when you close you eyes (zero stimulation) does the fading image of Jesus of Nazareth "appear". Unexpected is the fact that his hair is dark - whereas in the image, its bright! This is the result of over-stimulation. Some people imagine they see a colour image- in this case the result of their brain - over actively filling in missing detail.

 

Finished mix down on GarageBand of an animation were i have edited the audio.

GarageBand Print Screen Of Word Document

I made his monster in stop motion starting with blue clay balls then added pink spots facial expression and horns, now it is able to stand up ready to move in an animation.