Evaluation

My stop motion video took me a very long time to do as it was very akward to get things right such as using the stop motion camera to put it in the right place, also the clay on my characters kept falling off so as I would have recorded some of it one lesson the next it wouldn't look the same as the first part of the video. I think that the length of time to edit and finish my animation payed off. I made my characters using clay, I used super mario characters as I thought if I did it properly it would look good. I enjoyed doing this assignment.

Finished Stop Motion Video

This is my finished video, I edited the sound using garage band. I went onto google and types in super mario sound effects and downloaded the ones I wanted. I then put them all into place.

progress of my animation video

This is my super mario video I made using clay, I now need to add on some music and sound effetcts. 

Making the background

Today I continued to set out my super mario assignment. I went onto google and searched for the super mario map.

This is the image I found. It already has some of the characters on so this was a problem, so I went onto photoshop to try edit it out.

This is my finished piece of removing the characters. As you can see it doesn't look very professional as I used the line tool to make the hill complete as mario was in the way before.

To edit out the characters I used the clone stamp tool. This lets you click on the image and it will copy the section you chose and paste were you click until you let go of the button.

This is what it looked like when I had finished. When I printed it of my mario was to big to jump onto the boxes so it didn't look right so I went back onto photoshop and then used the select tool and moved the boxes higher so it would let mario be the right size for the boxes. 

This is my final edited piece of the background I am going to use.

Stop Motion assignment

For my assignment I have decided to use the idea of creating super mario and luigi.

For the scene I am going to make a gumba which is a super mario character which they jump on to kill it. However as the mushroom makes them go bigger I am going to make the get it, then make a bigger gumba using the plaster-sine and then mak gumba e mario and luigi fight it.

These are my characters I made and are going to be in my Stop motion video.

Stop motion animation production

For this assignment we have been asked to produce a motion of our choice such as cut out animation, model based animation and so on. I have decided to create a model based animation like the one I made before:

The reason I have chose to do model based is it because I find it good to make your own character and you can do many things with it, such as add music to it to make it better.

My first idea I am going to do is make a character which is a fights with other people I make. I am then going to edit it and put in a piece of music to go with the scene I make.

My second idea was to create a super mario scene by creating Mario and Luigi and then making the question mark box they jump and hit like this: 

My last idea is to make football model based characters and make a scene of a football game but try to make it funny by making them tackle each other badly. My football players will look similar to this: 

Cell based animation

Cell-based animation is where each cell is reproduced and variations are made to the next cell. This continues until there is a series of cells. Each cell is slightly different from the previous. It gives the appearance of movement which is animation.


An example of cell-based animation is to watch any of the Disney movies especially Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. All cells were hand drawn and painted. 



Here is an example of cell based animation - Tom and jerry

Persistence Of Vision

Persistence of vision is a visual phenomenon where an image is retained in the eye for a short period of time, creating an illusion of continuous motion in film and video.

Your eye and brain hold on to a series of images to form a single complete picture.

Sound animation

This is the video I had to edit by putting music on it. I firstly found a music of my choice which was Carl Douglas -Kung fu fighting, I thought this was a good choice as it goes with the video because it has fighting in it. 

The next step I had to do was fade out the music, which means as the video is almost finished make the music go lower and lower. To do this I clicked onto the 'Track' tab and then clicked on to fade out.

It then comes up with this ^
This is the fade out settings, you have to click and drag the balls higher or lower depending on when you want it to fade out. As you can see it goes higher then low till the music fades and stops.


Conclusion
Today I have learnt how to use GarageBand and how to add music to a video and also how to edit it.