Evaluation
For our Unit 33 stop motion work we had to organised ourselves into a group (2 groups of 5 and one of four). From there we had to brainstorm ideas and come up with a basic plan for creating said stop motion project.
My team consisted of Leanne, Inrek, Ciaran, Rory and myself. we decided originally to create an animation based around a classic 90's beat em up fighting game, such as Street Fighter & Tekken , this plan would require each of us to design or at least put in some constructive input into the design ofg their characters, we then needed to create said models with; wire, pipe cleaners, plastecine/play doh. And then build the models, at least 2 of each character, all the backdrops and scenes were to be created as a joint effort between me, Inrek and Leanne. We had however underestimated the complexity of creating models out of plastecine because they would become dry and brittle the longer they were left and would fall apart and disintegrate when we attempted to move them for the animating.
We could have managed our time better but most of our time management issues were because of our troubles with acquiring the materials necessary to create our models, we fell far behind in our production scheduled. because of this we ended up deciding to change our animation entirely because all of our models either disintegrated, dissipated or were squashed.
The idea for our new animation was conceptualized, mocked up and created in a couple of hours, we then used an inflatable whale that one of our tutors Dan had to be the central figure of our animation. So taking advantage of the good summer weather we took the whale outside and created ourt new animation of a land whale, swimming around on the lawn of the college garden. The overall animation turned out quite well considering its hasty creation and lack of content.
The animation flowed quite well when compared to a professional example but the projects rushed nature was clearly evident in the video, we did manage to put in some music which helped improve the video.
Despite all this the responses from class mates and other people whom viewed the video and filled in the survey was quite positive and they liked the quirkiness of the content. However if we could have done the whole project again we would have probably chose a theme,concept that wasn't as far outside of our skill set as our original concept.
My team consisted of Leanne, Inrek, Ciaran, Rory and myself. we decided originally to create an animation based around a classic 90's beat em up fighting game, such as Street Fighter & Tekken , this plan would require each of us to design or at least put in some constructive input into the design ofg their characters, we then needed to create said models with; wire, pipe cleaners, plastecine/play doh. And then build the models, at least 2 of each character, all the backdrops and scenes were to be created as a joint effort between me, Inrek and Leanne. We had however underestimated the complexity of creating models out of plastecine because they would become dry and brittle the longer they were left and would fall apart and disintegrate when we attempted to move them for the animating.
We could have managed our time better but most of our time management issues were because of our troubles with acquiring the materials necessary to create our models, we fell far behind in our production scheduled. because of this we ended up deciding to change our animation entirely because all of our models either disintegrated, dissipated or were squashed.
The idea for our new animation was conceptualized, mocked up and created in a couple of hours, we then used an inflatable whale that one of our tutors Dan had to be the central figure of our animation. So taking advantage of the good summer weather we took the whale outside and created ourt new animation of a land whale, swimming around on the lawn of the college garden. The overall animation turned out quite well considering its hasty creation and lack of content.
The animation flowed quite well when compared to a professional example but the projects rushed nature was clearly evident in the video, we did manage to put in some music which helped improve the video.
Despite all this the responses from class mates and other people whom viewed the video and filled in the survey was quite positive and they liked the quirkiness of the content. However if we could have done the whole project again we would have probably chose a theme,concept that wasn't as far outside of our skill set as our original concept.
