#stopmotionideas

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Learn how to make the very intense and awesome Stop Motion Animation of Street Fighter Akuma vs. The Hand. Thinking where to get the stop motion animation ideas for the story? Well, well, well, there are tons of ideas around you. Continue reading https://tinyurl.com/jbf782p

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Stop Motion animation is a popular kind of filmmaking. Learn the 3 stop motion animation secrets and some ideas to obtain your  stop frame animation. Get more ideas here: https://goo.gl/39LRjC

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Stop motion

SO we have to do a stop motion in my class, and Though I still don’t really know my rules yet. I been thing about them, but I don’t know exactly what I want to do. 

but my three set of things are pens, paintbrushes, and pencils. sense I have tone of different types and looks I thought it was a great idea. 

I could make them spin or I can make them go across the screen, there is lot that I can do. 

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Project Inspiration

With the coming of the the project proposal in the next few weeks, I’ve been putting in a lot of thought to what to do for it with my partner. I have been finding it hard to cohesively combine the theories and techniques needed to form an initial plan. There is one idea have been mulling over that I believe may work.

Explore: The opening scene- the first subject wipes smeared red lipstick off their lips and flicks their hand away, throwing it to the ground. Someone then walks over it and it sticks to their foot. They try to shake it off, ultimately having to bend down and scrape it off the sole of their shoe. When they look down at their hand, it’s resting in the form of a simple red heart. They proceed about their walk and go into work, have a meeting where they give a presentation and they pat the back of their guest, transferring the heart to the guest’s shoulder. That guest goes home to their partner who gives them a back rub before going off to the gym, shifting the heart to their hand. After a game, they high-five their teammates, moving the heart to the first friend’s hand. They get on the bus where someone bumps into a bus rider, knocking them into the friend. Their hands are up to catch the impact, transferring the heart onto the bus rider’s back. The bus rider gets off and walks down the street into their home where they see the sad first subject. The bus rider then hugs the first subject, putting the heart from their back onto the first subject, again.

Explain: In this, I am trying to showcase how lost love isn’t always lost; it just can come to you in a new form. The inspiration for this was sparked by an image on makeup artist Lindsey Williams’ Instagram (crazypretty). The simplicity attracted me to develop a story/journey for it to follow.

Evaluate: As a first idea for the stop-motion project, I believe it has potential to have some ideas used in the final proposal. Meeting with my partner to discuss this idea, and her’s, further will help coordinate our aim and tactics for the future.

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Adobe Illustrator & Fonts

     Adobe Illustrator has always been a media format creator that I’ve desired to learn about but have never had the chance/access to use. The purpose of learning the skills that are necessary to work Illustrator are really important for the final video project. But for this case, it’s interesting to use it just to experiment and create ideas.

Explore: Illustrator opens up a lot of doors to finished media products but also to individual theories and components. I focused on experimenting with different font types and sizes, how they can/ should be arranged to interest the viewer, and also how to get the direct message across to the viewer. I also took this as a chance to create a rough draft of a logo found at the bottom right of the poster.

Explain: What’s interesting about typography is not only the message derived from it but the ways in which it can be used as a technology. Our society is a visual culture so it’s critical to take advantage of that. With that in mind, I thought about how best to interest a specific crowd of people. I chose to mix fonts and sizes to create an environment that’s almost chaotic but meant to be fun. Then I chose to add in clean lines and distinct font patterns to then draw the viewer to key points of the poster. I found a really helpful design website that helps narrow down what type of font fits your needs. (Linked here)

Evaluate: A lot more goes into creating a poster then just smacking facts on a piece of paper . You have to realize who you’re talking to in order to create a successful continuous message. While my first example is no where near close to perfectly doing that, I’ve attempted to engage the viewers as well as inform them. The font play was very key to this and will be in the production of the final video. The fonts of titles, subtitles, and captions for the video will be very (even if unknowingly) important to the narrative.

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Taking a look at how stop-motion animation works seems complex from the outside. Depending on the length of the project, it’s possible to have anywhere from 5 frames to 500 frames to piece together. At first, I was worried that stop-motion animation through photography would be too hard to learn about for a beginner. Although tedious and time consuming, it turned out to be quite the opposite. I figured out that with the help of Photoshop, joining together photos together is a lot like sewing— each stitch, or frame, is easier to connect to the next until suddenly, you have a whole, finished product.

Explore: As a first attempt, we looked to Eadweard Muybridge’s experiments with sequential photography. I chose the images of a partially nude woman. From the images alone, Muybridge seems to be tracing her movements throughout the lens of the camera. When I saw her face, it’s that of concentration and happiness.

Explain: Muybridge’s photos were an early expression of stop-motion animation. Although he did not attach them to each other in a rapid, video-like way, his expression allows the viewer to do that for themselves. The process of learning stop-motion animation using Photoshop opens up the doors of relating an image to an emotion or idea through movement, so that you can watch her emotions move across her face.

Evaluate: Muybridge’s works are inspiring because they combine the science of observing a subject with the art of capturing its essence. A still image lets your imagination run wild with the possibilities of what the subject is doing. A video takes your hand and guides you to an outcome. Stop-motion mixes both aspects and demonstrates that there’s an in-between. The in-between meaning that there’s a connection from the subject to the viewer.

Original photos by Eadweard Muybridge (1887) via commons.wikimedia.org