Stop Motion Animation Research

Animation Research

These animations have been made with people in what looks like a cinema theatre. This was made with 100's of different still images. Sometimes people use modelling clay can be used. e.g.

In this animation it has been made with alot of different still images. This also uses modelling clay in certain parts to make it less life like. It was made by Jan Svankmajer. 

Animated GIF's

http://crayonsinboxes.tumblr.com/tagged/family+guy - This is where I found this GIF.
I got this picture off tumblr, it is a cartoon clip from the show family guy. It was made just for fun. It has no reason for it behind it.

http://crayonsinboxes.tumblr.com/tagged/Batman%20Returns - This is where I found this GIF
I got this GIF off tumblr. It is about a 3 second clip from the movie 'Batman Returns'. It was made for the purpose of the movie to show when the character stands up, it shows he is Batman.

http://crayonsinboxes.tumblr.com/tagged/american%20psycho - This is where I found this GIF
I got this GIF off tumblr. It is about 3 second clip from the movie 'American Psycho'. It was made for the purpose of the movie for the introduction of the movie.

Video Editing

This is the video I made in the summer. I have re edited it to make it slightly shorter and i also added new effects and a ending title that both look like comic books. I edited it in iMovie. To edit it I had to import all of the footage and then I selected the certain parts of the movie i wanted to add in to it and put it in the order I wanted to. The transitions were put in automatically then finally I added a title with the title button.

Symbols (spinning spuds)

These are my potatoes and I converted them to a symbol. I did this by finding a image on the internet and copy and pasting it into flash. To make it into a symbol you select the image and then click modify and then convert to symbol. You then get 3 choices you can make it into a movie clip, button or graphic. I selected graphic and named it potato. When you convert a image from the internet to a symbol it goes from a rasta graphic to a vector graphic. Once I converted the image to a symbol I could then use the same symbol over and over. This is how I added several of the same image. To make them movie I made two key frames and one of them at frame one and another at frame 40. I then moved one of the potatoes from one side of the screen on frame one to the other side on frame 40 then right clicked in between the two key frames and inserted a motion tween to make it move across the screen. I also made one of the potatoes fade out by creating a motion tween and selecting the effect alpha and finally the two potatoes in the corner i made a motion tween again and then put a clock wise rotation. The potato spins 70 times before it starts again. 

These are my models I have made for model animations.

Shape Motion Tween

This images was originally from the internet and started as a rasta graphic and when i put it into flash i had to turn it to vector graphic. I did this by clicking on modify, bitmap, then many corners and tight fit. After this I put my modle in the place that I wanted it. Next I inserted a key frame then moved the model into the place I wanted on that key frame then clicked in the middle of the two key frames and selected shape tween. Finally i exported it as a movie file and then put it in my blog.

This is my animated GIF. I created a short animation in flash. Firstly I opened up flash and selected "flash file (action script 3.0)". Secondly I used the brush tool to draw a shape on frame one. Then I selected frame 100 and inserted a keyframe then moved the shape out of the frame. After this I right clicked in the middle of my two frames and right clicked and selected insert motion tween. This makes the shape move to the area you moved it to on the final frame of the animation. Ater it was at frame 100 and moved it back to original spot by doing the same process. I also added a shape tween. This is where you so the same thing as before but instead of moving the image you can change it for another image and instead of making a motion tween you make a shape tween. I did this twice once from a square to a circle and then to a name.