Today we learned how to use DragonFrame as well as all the lights and cameras, in this short animation I tried to keep everything in frame as well as add a glass shatter effect using premiere pro. The effect is nothing to write home about however I just wanted to go over the basics of premiere pro again as it has been a while since i last used it

Something I feel I need to watch out for when doing stop motion is having my hands in frame as even in this thumbnail you van see my fingers in the frame. This was mainly a result of me just rushing a little bit as I started to get comfortable with it.

The frame rate I used for this animation is the same as I used for most of my 2D work, that being 12.5 Fps. although that framework being half of the cinematic standard I believe that it adds a certain charm to the stop motion puppets as well as giving me more time to experiment with the StickyMan.

First I started off with pixelation, using my hand as the main prop, tapping my fingers and making it crawl before jumping at the camera overall it was easier than I thought. However I feel that it will get a lot harder if I was to carry on down the path of pixelation.

The claymation was fun I enjoyed making the little guy. I didn't enjoy destroying him though I want to keep my guys alive!!!

in the end I prefer claymation despite how awful my hands feel now.

This was a lot harder than I initially expected as we had to be put in a lot of extremely uncomfortable positions. Especially kian poor guy. However I believe that this turned out better than I would've expected and overall I did enjoy making it. I don't think ill be doing full body pixelation for my final piece but it is an interesting medium.

In my animation I wanted to make a snowman coming together in different ways. I believe that I did this quite well however one thing I do not like is how the clay makes my hands feel awful after doing this

this was a great test to get used to the sticky bones and how each joint works and it'll allow my final piece using the sticky bones to come out even better than I first imagined

I also experimented on Premiere Pro and after effects to change the sticky bones' colour as well as change the background. I made the background the same as the last one because my Computer had no internet connection and I had to make due with what I had on hand.

For a couple of moments in my animation I needed to have things disappear or be under another thing.

To accomplish this I used the masking tool in the opacity drop menu then painstakingly went around the object I either needed to keep or remove.

For the hand at the end I had an image of the background on its own so I was able to just put that behind the image making it indistinguishable.

Bonus: I decided to incorporate the buzzing of my fridge into this work as without it the silence is too loud and even after trying to find silence to add to make it feel less like I was testing controllers in an empty void I added the buzzing which almost sounds like a fluorescent light. ( one idea i just came up with was that i could've had it so the light on the table flicker every now and then to give off a true fluorescent light effect)

1. the clay left over after i smushed it down I didn't even think until i was cleaning up that I could've picked it up with more clay.

2. I forgot to take a picture of my rat before i smushed him into a ball :(

However I couldn’t figure out how to do that with paper.

I also think I would’ve enjoyed this one more if I had stuck to my original thought of having it quite absurd with shapes and realistic elements combing such as the work of Jan Lenica or even Bruce Bickford.

At first I was thinking about making a bomb out of clay but I instead chose to have just the wires on show as to not have anything on screen be blocked by a box in the middle. What was quite funny was having to expand the amount of clay holding the wires in place as when the yellow sticky bones was lift in it up we nearly had a piece of wire sticking out.

The white background was chose specifically to contrast the sticky bones having black joints and I felt like the white felt more like a boxed I room compared to green. Ultimately I think I made the right choice.

The camera angle change in this one was a well done thing I like to think.

The squeak was heavily altered for fun to make the rat sound like it had a reallly deep voice, this was ultimately chosen as the direction because I thought it was funny.

The thing that took me the longest was trying to find piano music that I like from one of the free sound sites we could use that took me probably longer than the animation itself.