Narrative

In the Narrative Project, I had to tell a story without words. While I wasn’t able to obtain the second half of the animation or sound due to issues with my partner, I was able to complete my part of the animation.

Poem Animation:

I lied about the whales.

Fantastical blue water-dwellers,  big, slow moaners of the coastal.

In this project, I worked with a group of class mates. Each of us was given a line or two from a poem. Using that, we each had to make an animation that when combined with the other animations from our group blended as seamlessly as possible. My original plan was to hand draw and color all of my frames, and then put it on a background. I wasn’t able to produce the whole animation in that format due to time and ink constraints. So I did what I could using some of the unfinished frames: I built a whale armature out of paper, string, and tape, and used the armature technique for the second half.  While the transition between the individual cut out frames and the armature is a little rough, I was able to complete my contribution to the animation.

 

Direct Techniques:

In the direct techniques project I had to use 2 different animation styles. I chose to do paint-on-glass and paper-cut-out animation. I had some issues with the camera which resulted in part of the animation appearing dark.

 

Flip book:

The flip book was one of the first projects in animation class. In this project we had to express an emotion using only basic geometric shapes and the principles of animation. For mine I chose to express the emotion of playfulness. I based my animation on a puppy because they are excited balls of fluff. To reflect this feeling, I made my square and triangles bounce around and get distracted in the same manner as a puppy would.