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Trying to animate every object to make them look as though they’re alive. I used simple tracing techniques as well as moving the hair and eyes to make it look as though the wind is blowing through the hair and the eyes are blinking.

I will be using these short animations to perhaps introduce each room in my house. I just took a picture, moved things around a bit and took another picture and so on. I think this technique works well with the music I chose ‘Origamibiro - Ballerina Platform Shoes Set In Sand Remix’ from the Free Music Archive website. But I am unsure whether I will use this music in the final thing. We’ll see.

A lot of my video clips were quite shakey so I had to teach myself how to stabilize the clips. In Sony Vegas Pro I click on my clip, go to Tools - Video - Media FX and click on ‘VEGAS Stabilize’ and choose the amount of stabilization I want. Then I click apply and voila!

The outcome is still quite shakey but it is miles better than it was originally.

I was originally going to add this bit of animation into the final piece but I decided not to because it was at the beginning of the video and it would have been too much for the viewer to look at and register. This is why I tried to keep the animations at the beginning of the video very simple to slowly build up into the climax of the song and video.

#animation #stopmotion #rotoscope #digital

This was an experimental animation for the credits of a performance in Hong Kong last year. The theme was ‘The sky is the limit’ and our performance was about weather. My animation touched more on when we grow up and lose our innocence (the innocence being the white balloon).

#balloon #innocence #animation #stopmotion #experimental #performance #rotoscope

......and then once these illustrations were finished I just had to drag them into my video editor, play about with them and voalá!

I drew the first frame and then I drew the last frame and now all I have to do is work out the inbetween!

The image underneith shows the second frame in progress. Stretching the sides where the words will not appear and almost crumpling the line to form the words. To make life easier I have lowered the opacity of the words frame and used a different colour for the second frame (which I will change to green later) to differenciate between the lines easier.

Right now I am working out how to animate this green line into the words ‘wanna be’ to go with the lyrics of the song. First I worked out how many frames I had to animate the line changing into the words. Looking at the audio track, you can see it takes about 8 frames has a 1 frame pause and then has another 14 frames where it repeats the words again. So I will animate the words in 14 frames and then use the existing frames to (but cutting 6 out) to use for the 8 frames part. Does that make sense? I don’t know.

Anyway back to photoshop...

At the moment I am working on an animation to go ontop of a video filmed, directed and edited by my friend doing Visual Art in MMU. The video concept is playful and bright (almost like a music video) and the animations I am doing ontop must mimic this concept.

I am using a limited colour palette with simplistic line drawings so as not to distract the viewer from the video itself. My illustrations are merely there to add some spicy imagery for aesthetic purposes. However, while I was drawing for some scenes I found that some of the illustrations I was doing had an additional message. As you can see in the first image, my Visual Art friend had some drone shots of the city, so I wanted to play with the urban city idea and add more green because I feel this is what the city lacks.

The character at the bottom is the product of this idea. A creature or spirit with the incentive to bring thr city back to life and back to nature through watering the buildings.

These are some finished pages and front and back covers from my original book called ‘Only a lock of hair’. I hope to finish this book some time in the near future!