This week was the turn of Moving Image & Photography – a pathway that I am considering for Part 2 of Foundation. I was really looking forward to creating an animation as I’ve done a bit of animating before but not in great detail. However, the first task of the week was to create a photo narrative where 12 photos would be used to tell a story. The theme of the narrative was Change and we decided to tell the story of a teddy bear who was thrown away and damaged.
I think our final outcome was successful with a variety of camera angles, and the story was clearly understood by everyone. However, our final piece had 13 photos rather than 12, and the last two photos were very similar. If we were to continue with the project, we would have needed to solve that small editing issue, which would also have improved the final layout by making it a neat grid. From our photography project, we were recommended to look at the work of Martin Parr and Anna Fox, due to the bright colours and objects we used in our work.
The next task of the week was to create a short animation morphing from one object into another using in-between animation. To gain inspiration for the task, we watched several examples of animation:
MUTO, a wall painted animation by BLU
Love & Theft by Andreas Hykade
Your Face by Bill Plympton
http://tu.tv/videos/bill-plympton-your-face-short-fi
My chosen object was a teacup which I had to morph into a plug. I chose to animate the plug breaking through the teacup and shattering it.
After drawing the key frames of the start image – the teacup – and the end image – the plug – I drew the in-between frame. I then drew the frame in between the first image and the middle image, and the frame in between the middle image and the last image, and so on… After drawing 19 frames, I had a complete and smooth animation. When my animation was combined with the other members of my group, we had a finished, successful animation.
My Foundation Year 