Stop motion

This week, I learned about stop motions, directing and a bit of camera. For the first video, My lecturer demonstrated stop motion while I took the pictures and giving directions when to move next. The 2nd video is about me trying to catch the books running away while one of the lecturers helped take the pictures. Having myself act the scenes can sometimes be tiring especially when I am acting to fall down. The 3rd one is an idea I had to think my own. I though of acting like a magician, pulling in a chair and making things appear and disappear. It was a fun experience.          

                           

Lecturer demonstration

Runaway Book

 

Magic

principles of animation

Here I am required to show as much as possible taking photos of my peers acting on an of the 12 principles of animation.

Straight ahead

 pose to pose

 

Appeal

 

Follow through & overlapping action / Arc

 

Secondary action

 

Anticipation

Slow in & slow out

Mood board

This week, I am tasked in creating a mood board for my gameboard. The mood board will determine the colors for the gameboard. First off, I determine areas where and what content I want to put in. After that, I preceed to create the Mood board based on the position I choose.

Planning the moodboard

 

Finalizing

End result

Retro scoping practice

The drawings are then taken to the photo studio where lighting is focus on 1 area in the dark room. All pages are taken 1 by 1. Here are some sequences :

Once finished, The works are then converted digitally using Adobe Premier

Here is the result of the retro scoping

Retroscoping Final task

These are the movie sequence directed by me to be converted for retro scoping. Each action is directed to follow the storyboard movements as accurately as possible.

Scene taking process

20th cent task 1 (cubism)

Our first task, is to create a cubism styled artwork out of our peers. We are tasked to create the artwork based on the information we gathered about them. I was tasked to create an artwork about Yati. So, we took a session for questioning each others personality, likes, hobby's and other information.

 After the questioning, I started to create a sketch based on the answers I was given. I used Picasso inspired cubism work in my sketch.

For the real work, I used a large Styrofoam and based on the sketch, I created faint lines on the foam for cutting

With some of the spare left overs, I used it to create simple details like the eyes and mouth. For the parts, I used toothpicks to stick them together.

The final result of my work, the artwork represents Yati's  personality and image. For the top, she had a cooking hat which represents her like in food. The facial areas represents what I see. The camera tells that she likes taking pictures as well as traveling.

Reflection

During the task, I learned the cubism style used by Pablo Picasso. I also learned that cubism styles then to look flat and blending in with the background. Other than that, I learned to communicated with my peers and get to know them a bit more for the semester.

20th cent task 2(DADA)

 This week, we are tasked to go out for 30 minutes to find recyclable materials around the campus. There were a lot of thrown away items at the time. Some, we are not sure if the college still needs the as they seemed perfectly intact. However, we spotted some thrown out wood  and decided to take a few of them.
My items are 2 curved wooden board and 1 broken wood side table

 Recycle wood

After gathering some recycled materials, I took some time figuring what to turn it into. At first, I tried turning it into an item about broken dreams however it looked very much like a chair. Another Idea is to turn it into a skateboard as to how teenages are fond of such sport. So, I went with the skateboard idea.

First off, I take 2 of the similar boards and  asked  a lecturer for assistants in drilling holes the board. After drilling the holes, I used metal wires to merge them together. I dismembered the table legs and used saws to cut off the parts of table leg so that it looks like wheels and  used nails and hammer to nail them together

 Resulting skateboard

Reflection

I learned alot about the art movement Dadaism and how they turn any recyclable items into an unexpected artwork. Just like how I managed to turn random wooden boards and tables into a skateboard