Experimenting with cell animation.

This cell animation was made from a series of drawings and the put together using After Effects.

I think cell animation is a very effective technique to use for an animation. It flows well and looks original with the hand drawn sketches. However, I feel it would be too ambitious for me to use this technique as I would probably spend too much time focusing on the detail of the sketches and not use my time efficiently.  

Untitled from alexandria Fleetwood on Vimeo.

As this was just an experiment, we decided to stick to just simple characters and narrative. The basic story is a bat which flies into the scene, when the triangle girl enters, the bat starts chasing her, the round man then goes in to save the day and hits the bat away.

3 words...

These are the 3 words that came to mind when listening to the audio;

HAPPY.

INNOCENT.

FANTASY.


(mood boards)

Here I have created a mood board, collecting images, words, photographs that related to the words that described the song.

Stop Motion workshop.

Rayogram experiment...

Rayograms.

I really like this technique; the contrast between the black and grey backgrounds against the light negative shapes look really effective. I'm not sure if ill use this method when creating my animation, however, I want to experiment with capturing different objects, as the images created are very inspirational when coming up for ideas for a subject to work on. 

This was the first one I made which turned out better than expected. This was a tester piece to see how many seconds of light exposure I would need to create a good colour and contrast. I did this in about 7 sections, using 2 seconds of light each time so the beginning of the strip had a total of around 14 seconds of light exposure.

I feel these two turned out better than the one above as the detail of the objects is a lot more defined

This is a ball of string, I like the detail of the tine strands.

... a few more animations I found on youtube

I also came across quite a few 'Amazon Kindle' adverts where stop motion has been used...