Exploration 6

Next project was exploration 6 and the overall idea of it was a tough one. The point was to take two different types of animation styles that we have learned and put it together in one animation. We were allowed to do any type of storyline or message we wanted to appoint in our animation. I, myself wanted to do something related to my dogs. My two dogs are so nutty, funny and cute. Having them in one of my animations was going to be a great. Sadly it was a lot of work and I just wasn't myself. I felt like I just couldn't animate things anymore. I looked at other's work and I felt as through my piece wasn't good enough for the class. In the end, I handed it in and there were some things that could have been improved for the animation. I could have used different colored paper for it and go beyond what we were taught.

Exploration 5

Exploration 5 gets to claymation. For this I REALLY wanted to do a comercial for Despicable Me. I had such a good idea for it but I just couldn't follow through with the idea that I had. I had a hard time sculpturing my figures and also showing only certain parts of the character's body and not the whole thing. In the end the project ended terribly and I didn't like it one bit at all. Claymation, I would say, is a weak spot in my animating skills and I would like to get the chance in the future to correct that.

Exploration 4 Final

After all the hard work, the commercial is finally finished. The beginning had nice smooth arm motion to throw the seeds, but the growth of the seeds into a monster didn't show much animation and it was quite a problem to making the seeds grow. That was one of the tricky things of making silhouette animation. In the ending of the commercial, lots of people LOVED it! The layers of the red background coming out as being eaten by the plant show off very nicely. 

Exploration 4 process

We are now getting into a business part in making animations. Working with a clinic that wants certain things in the comercial was quite something. I really had to think about what type of fantasy or sci-fi related thing would work with the music that we were given. For this, I thought of House of Horrors theme for it. Having a man eatting plant grow and just jump out to the audience and eat them. Doing it all in black paper in a silhouette way was tough. Having to show the plants grow was a difficult process to make. Here are some images of how the cut outs would look through.