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Stop Motion week two

Moon Project

What was the brief?

Create a 10-20 second Stop motion with the prompt ‘A Trip to the Moon’. In the same group as the previous group we brainstormed an idea based off a recent discovery of the moon being able to have a pull that brings water towards it. Being inspired by that idea we decided on a story of a young man swimming in the ocean before getting shot up by water to the moon. We deliberated on a more morbid story where it cuts to the man at the end drowned at sea instead of being on the moon however we did not include that.

Overall thoughts

The process was very simple, we did a previous test of the water and how we would recreate it by creating slips of waves overlapping and going back and forth consistently to give an effect of rapid waves. This worked out well in the final video. Things to improve on is being more experimental as we barely used charcoal in this one which could have added another texture along with our existing puppet. We could have also incorporated some of our tests from the first week into this second one but as it is this video was a successful depiction of the prompt given in the beginning.

Link to the video:

A trip to the moon: https://youtu.be/X9RlglmrfNE

Test assets

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Real assets

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Stop motion week one

Using DragonFrame

Learning DragonFrame

DragonFrame is a Stop motion program that makes creating rostrum stop motion very easy (Shot from above). This was a very simple program to use as we just had to adjust the camera to have the whole desk in frame and click enter when creating a frame of animation (For 24fps we did each frame twice to replicate a smooth video).

Animation tests

First task was on creating a short animation using shredded pieces of paper. The most effective part was the transformation from three spinning shapes to a face then exploding. These transitions were very well done as the face looks like a natural next image from the initial three shapes.

Recreating Movie Scenes

The main task in week one was to watch a famous film done by real life actors to replicate in Stop motion telling the story/moral of the film. My group decided on a film called ‘Parasite’. This film was about the gap between poor and rich people with the poor people tricking a rich family to pay them well however they also still working for the rich people so the film keeps the audience guessing on who is leeching off the other more.

We decided to recreate key parts of the film using contrasting scenes of the poor family against the rich family. In the end it came out very well with the transitions from one scene to the other. The transitions for the rich family always went upwards while the poor goes down further showing how much in decline the poor family is in.

Improvements to this video could be a use of perspective as there were no forced perspective scenes that could show the difference between the two families more, there also could be more experimental use of the black paper than still puppets.

Links to the Stop Motion Videos:

Test Shapes: https://youtu.be/jO_9SPiWN54

Parasite Recreation: https://youtu.be/6w1VDZ0Y32Q

Shape Test

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Parasite

Parasite

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