Wednesday, 13 June 2012
My First Year Mixed Media Animation
Name:
Daniel Newton
Module No: ARD407 Ideas & Concepts
Assignment Title: Mixed Media
Introduction
The
requirements of this assignment was to create a short piece of music track of
up to about 1 minute, and then create an animated film to blend in with the
track by developing and exploring the themes of Sound, Colour and Weight.As this was an individual assignment the first thing that I did was to undertake some research on the animations created by Norman McLaren, Oskar Fischinger, John Whitney and Robert Breer. I then produced my own soundtrack that conveyed lots of different colour and weight. The next stage of developing this project was to create an animated video to blend in with the soundtrack.
Above all I feel that I have done really well on this assignment as this is the second time I have worked individually on this type of assignment. I feel satisfied with how the final product has turned out and I feel very pleased with how the final product was received by my fellow students at the critique.
My First Year Cut-Out Animation
Name:
Daniel Newton
Module No: ARD407 Ideas & Concepts
Assignment Title: Cut-Out
Animated Cut-out Characters: Based on an Apple and a Banana theme
idea
The requirements
of this individual assignment was to create a short piece of music track of up
to about 1 minute, and then create a synchronised animated film to blend in with the track, to
form a random character conversation.
In order to
start this assignment the first thing that I did was to undertake some research
on the animations created by Terry Gilliam, and Lotte Reiniger. I then produced my own soundtrack by
gathering a lot of different track conversations from online radio stations.
The next stage of developing this project was to create an animated video to
blend in with the track.
Creating the sound track
After
researching the animators that I have named I set to work to produce my
soundtrack. I produced the track by gathering a lot of different conversations
from various radio stations online such as Radio 1 and 4; I then mixed and
edited the sounds together using the computer software “Audacity” to form a
character conversation.
Creating the film
After
producing the soundtrack I set to work to produce the animation to blend with
the track. I started off by cutting out an apple and a banana to form the
characters that I wanted to create. I cut out different eyes, eye brows and
mouth shapes for each of the different letter sounds and also arms and legs for
the apple and banana characters. In the end I decided not to use the arms and
legs because the characters were always going to remain in the same location. By
carefully listening to the track, frame by frame (25 frames per second) and by
using dope sheets I marked in every frame where each letter of the character`s
conversation where sounded and by following the dope sheets I got to work on
producing the animation, by changing the mouth shapes in all the frames where
each letter of the words where sounded.
Linking the film to the soundtrack
For the
final stage I edited the soundtrack onto the animation itself. I did this at
home by using the software “Windows Live Movie Maker”.
Evaluation
I think the
final product has turned out really well, and turned out a lot better than I
expected. The lip synchronisations of the characters appear to be well coordinated
and only slightly out in a few places. This is something which could be
improved in future assignments. One other minor fault is that the background
moves slightly in the early stages of the animation because I forgot to tape it
down, this again is something to improve in the future. The strength of the
animation is the character lip synchronisation.
Taking all
these points into consideration I feel
that I have done really well on this assignment as this is the first time I`ve
worked individually on this type of assignment and I feel very pleased with how
the final product was received by my fellow students at the critique .
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