First off we planned out what we'd make for are group animation, at first we thought of making a simple animation where the stickmen would play a game of football using a paper football but after a while we felt that we should test are skills of animation by making a short dance video. for are short dance animation we used a simple song that we could used repeating ceqins and easy dances moves to copy from.
storyboard drawn by sally:
For the short dance animation we wanted to use the skill we were taught in 2d animation (like squash and stretch, anticipation and timing) and create a comical animation. The song we used from the animation “YMCA” was a very simple dance motion, the stickmen would stomp in place then after wave there arms from left to right before spelling out the YMCA.
The song and original dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k
Acting out the YMCA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ign0jR5Ed28
In the group we all did little bit of everything in the animation from capturing the animation to changing the light effects, doing this we would all get to find what we better at for later group animations. When filming are animation we wanted a to use different styles of lighting to give a dance atmosphere so we used two spotlights one on both side that we could switch between and two camera that could give use two different shooting scenes one full face on the stickmen and one to the side. This became tricky to do as we didn’t what to catch the spotlights or other camera in the shot.
In all the animation went very well we were able to pull off most of the dance move without to much problems. There were only a couple of problem later on in filming the animation as 2 of the stickmen were very stiff to move and eventually broke but we were about to change it in the editing by making the stickmen sit in the background. In all the animation was a little difficult then was hoped for but it showed that anything can happen and you should always have a back up if needed.
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