object stop motion

This is a short stop motion film i have created at home. I found this quite hard to create as i had no one to help me so i had to try and set the shot up with one hand and take the image with the other. Overall i am pleased with the film however i think it needs to be longer in length. If i was to recreate this i think i would find someone to help me and add the wine filling the glass further and then emptying by itself.

final evaluation

In this assignment i was asked to produce a stop motion animation made from single images taken on a camera. Along the way i researched stop animation right from the beginning with Eadweard Muybridge. I looked into flip books, zoetropes and other homemade stop motions to inspire my work. I have used a variety of equipment to help me along with learning new techniques. I have learnt how to take a stop motion aswell as producing it into a movie in final cut pro. For my final movie i created one on location. This movie is of 2 girls playing on the park. I really like this movie and think it turned out really good. However i don't think the music accompanying this is the correct choice. When doing this again i would spend more time choosing the correct music as this is a big part of any movie. I also played around with the idea of various people appearing and disappearing behind a tree. However once made this did not look as good as first planned. The main problems i encountered with this assignment was trying to get the speed of each frame correct so the movie became a fluid movement. This was finally achieved through trial and error and now i I'm confident in using this process again. Overall i am happy with all the movies i have produced in this assignment and i have enjoyed studying and producing stop motion.

Horse zoetrope at Camera Obscura

This video is showcasing one of the early ways animation was created. Lots of images with slight differences are placed in order inside a circular box. When the box is spun round it appears to the eye as one image which is moving.

zoetrope

 The earliest zoetrope was created in china in 180 AD however the zoetrope as we know it to be was created in 1834 by william horner. In the 1860s the idea finally became popular and was named zoetrope meanign wheel of life.

EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE

Muybridge was the first real inventor of capturing movement in images.In 1872 this invention came from simply trying to prove the point that whilst a horse gallops there is a point in which all 4 hooves are in the air at the same time. Up until he scientifically proved this it was thought that the front legs extend forwards whilst the back legs face behind. This was the start of his work with movement which continued for many years with the use of humans and animals as the subject.

Man zipping himself up zoetrope

This is another example of how a zoetrope works.

Simpsons Fight Flipbook animation - Animação de Bloquinho

This is a flipbook animation of the simpsons. This is made very well and contains many many images for it to show such fluid movement once played.