Monday, 23 November 2015

Lego Annimation


Ammu and I created a lego animation with sound.
This was our first try at adding sound/music to our stop-motion.
I think it came out alright but overall I think the video should have been longer.





Friday, 20 November 2015

Significant developers

Ray Harryhausen
Born 29th June, 1920.


Harryhausen was an American visual effects creator, producer and writer who created a form of stop-motion model animation known as 'Dynamation'.
Ray is the fantasy filmmaker that inspired many filmmakers, Ray made the impossible possible.
He created so many animated films that became a huge success. His work lives on and will do for many years to come.

Ray created a technique called Dynamation, this was a technique that used a split screen with rear projection. The effect had been there since the begging of film but Ray just added some additional twists.

source: http://www.unmuseum.org/dyna.htm



Contemporary animators

Tim Burton
Born 25th August, 1958.


Burton is an American film director, producer, writer, artist and animator. He is known for his gothic, dark, quirky horror and fantasy movies.
His most famous movies were:

  • Edward Scissorhands (1990)
  • The nightmare before Christmas (1993)
  • Beetle Juice (1988)
  • Corpse Bride (2005)
  • Sweeny Todd (2007)
And many more.

Burton is a very creative man with amazing imagination.
One stop-animation I personally like is the Corpse Bride.


A lot of effort went into making this film. The production of the film started in early November 2003 and was finished early September 2005 and was also released in September 2005.
Over all 300 puppets were made to film the whole movie. The Corpse Bride alone has 14 puppet.
There were 23 animators used to help produced the film.
Overall they had a budget of $40 million and they earned $117.2 million from the Box Office alone.There were just over 50 model makers for the puppets.
50% Art/creative and 50% technical that went into making the puppets.
The puppets skin has strings and paddles attached within their foam and silicone which is attached to their gear system to able to move them. Their eyes are made from urethane. 
Their fabric is made from foam and their hair is a combination of resin and silicone.
The gears have different parts which are connected to different parts of the puppets which make them smile, wave, walk, ect.



This is a video showing how the puppets were made and also the scenes.

Source: http://www.awn.com/vfxworld/corpse-bride-stop-motion-goes-digital

Monday, 2 November 2015

Test 1




This was my first attempt in making a stop motion. I made an alien, with its spaceship and a snail in its garden.
The alien makes the snail come to him and then with his powers he destroys the snail. The snail then gets control and ends up killing the alien.