Though I liked the animating techniques
of my test piece, the setup and assets could be more convenient. I chose to do
a whiteboard style final piece because of the freedom of 2D animation, however
now I have found it could prove more difficult to produce than originally
intended. To remove these concerns I have opted to create my stop frame
animation digitally. I would use the very same aesthetical style of a
whiteboard animation, keeping the white background and using mostly bold black
lines to contrast with it. This removes the need to continually draw and redraw
frames and the animation can be saved so nothing is lost. Assets would only
include my computer, Photoshop and the tablet on which I can draw the frames.
There is also a function on photoshop known as onion skins which shows a
translucent version of a previous frame as a guide, this is what I will be
using to help me make as smooth an animation as possible. I have already
produced some digital animation when making the lip sync on my puppet, so I am
confident that this style will prove effective.
Now that I am happy with my new format
and assets I can focus on how the sequence will play out and the characters
featured. I had the idea to do caricaturised versions of me and my siblings as
they would be easy for me to draw. The characters in this style of animation
aren't as important as the other styles I have seen because the focus will be
more so on how they transition rather than look. However the characters do need
appear unique from one another otherwise it will just look like the same person
over and over.
Final animation basic character design
I want my animation to continually loop
like my earlier work, bot not by reversing the frames. The animation will flow
as one sequence continually changing between the characters. Each transition
will be different and display a new type of movement. Each transition between
the characters should take about the same length of time and there will be
enough frames held on the characters to have a decent look at them.
Final
story board
1.Starts
as a ball
2.The
ball stretches downward
3.The
ball is now separated into two pieces
4.The
upper piece forms a brain while the other forms the characters skin
5.The
two pieces meet and the first character is formed
6.The
character begins to turn her head
7.The
character has completely turned and we can now see her whole body
8.The
black of her hair begins to engulf the shot
9.From
the blackness a skull appears where the
character would have been
10.The
blackness begins to melt away
11.The
blackness has now melted away revealing the next character
12.The
characters eyes and mouth begin to burn
13.The
fire completely engulf the character
14.Two
embers leap from the fire
15.The
embers begin to spin around one another very quickly
16.The
embers begin to form into running people and they have slowed down
17.The
first character runs past the screen
18.After
which the next character does the same
19.They
turn and begin to run at each other
20.The
characters collide and burst into balls where the process will begin again
