Stop Motion

We were put into groups of four and five and asked to create a stop motion animation in nine hours, here is the finnished video Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSEk-SbVeJQ&feature=plcp

The animation changed quite a lot to what we planned, it started off with us wanting to do the main character falling off his bike then having to face off with a horde of Zombies but when I was put in charge of finding the correct models I couldn't find a bike and a action figure that would look like a normal guy, what I was able to find was a Power Ranger but the bike that came with it couldn't be found so we had to make some changes to the stop motion, the next problem was I could't find any Zombie models so I created a Zombie by using some modeling Plasticine which looked like this

The problem was we couldn't get it to stand up or walk so we changed the plan, yet again to make it a crawler Zombie, Tom had an idea of doing a spoof of the game Left 4 Dead when a big Zombie enters the arena it starts flashing red and a big zombie turns up but instead we used a model troll that lands on the crawler and twists his head.
The easiest part of creating the stop motion was making the Zombie crawler and creating the backgrounds, the hardest part of the animation was spacing out what needed to be done in the nine hours we got to complete it and also creating the edit because when I used Windows Movie Maker it didn't let me put in a song without making it longer so when I put in a black screen at the end to extend the length i put the song in and as soon as i deleted it all the sounds got mixed up and it took me a good two hours to perfect it.

If I was to change anything in this animation it would be to follow the plan more and make a longer animation, overall I think our team did a brilliant job and we had fun making it.

Flash Planning

This is the planning I drew before I started Making my flash animations the reason for only just uploading it is because I didn't scan it in and I was too occupied with other work this is both my first animated comic and for my second one.

I kept as close as I could to the planning and to be honest I did a good job because sometimes I plan out things then I make little changes to make it better, sometimes I create better things from the top off my head and sometime it works out better, I plan to keep me on the track but sometimes I might drift towards the dirt track. Coming up with the story lines for both animations was easy because all I did was create some character make them fight then the bad guy gets killed, in the second one this story line was easier because I wanted to do a funnier animation then the genie idea came to me, so I thought instead of having a genie in a lamp ill have it in a lambrinie bottle hence the title the lamgenie.

Part 2 To Flash animation And Reflection

What I have been doing is working on another flash animation with a bit more animation I titled it the Lamgenie and is about the character in the last one and he finds a bottle of Lambrini while tidying the castle attic so when he opens it a Gene pops out to grant him three wishes what he wastes well not entirely.

I will upload my planning after I scan it in.

The only bit I struggled at is getting the speech and animation to go at a steady pace so that it is easy to understand and for the viewer to acknowledged what is going on in the animation, getting the genies face the perfect size when it zooms in was a fairly tricky part but the easiest thing to do was the mouth and facial expressions of the genie all I did was I change a small oval making different shapes which gave the effect of him speaking another part I thought was easy was the multicolored bit when he make a wish come true. My favorite part is the whole animation because its a simple story to follow and when the main character uses one wish in something good and wastes the rest all on one thing.

If I was to do this again the only thing I would change is the length of the animation making it longer and using more animation in by probably make him wish for a back flipping dog instead of wishing for the "Trippe Scene" but it needed to be finished ASAP so more time to perfect it would make it  it and probably use recordings instead of comic style.

The reason for this animation was because my last one didn't get results as expected so I thought I would do another one making it more entertaining and a bit more animation instead of just pictures.

Created on Adobe Flash CS3 Professional

My Profile Card

This is a card I created for the show reel which I used my honey badger to represent me, to be honest I can sort of see the resemblance, on it it shows my name, my course, date of birth, and a description about me and a picture of my best work or work I want to show, took me a hour to do all together and did the background by getting a picture off Google of some old paper and added everything else on.

My Blogger pic

This is My blogger picture that I made on Photoshop by getting a picture of a honey Badger and adding a few accessories I was aiming for a random mental lethal animorph sort of thing just for a bit of fun.

 Before (Original)

My Blogger Picture (After)

Horror Game Icon Review

This is my sketch for my Horror game icon which is not a pool of blood or a zombie the reason I did this for my Horror Icon is because the face is evil looking and can represent many different types of horror such as a Zombie apocalypse or a demented scientist from a film such as The Human Centipede (all you need to see is the trailer no more) or a vampire or werewolf etc.

What I found easy doing this icon was going over the drawing and making the hair which I am quite proud of I did the hair by filling in with a light-ish brown and drawing gray lines down in the direction of where the hair would go then I used the smudge tool to blend it in., the reason for the red background is because it represents blood which is as we all know is red if yours isn't then there is something wrong.

This is my finished icon.