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YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me. +20 second piece by aNILEator on 12-08-2007 at 08:18 AM

Here's what I've been working on at University since I started.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uw2YX0SFGUw

The Principles of Animation.

50 Short exercises to improve your learning, understanding and application of Stop-Motion Animation.

You may notice a familiar friend ;) he died during filming, I saved the head though.

I still have a 20 second piece left to do before Monday, so there'll be another one up there soon I guess.

20 Second Piece http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7E8_XOvJFxU

Enjoy :)

RE: YAY New Animations by Discrate on 12-08-2007 at 08:23 AM

wow nice work! I liked the last bit with the dog :P

RE: YAY New Animations by NanaFreak on 12-08-2007 at 08:24 AM

hot ;o

RE: YAY New Animations by aNILEator on 12-08-2007 at 08:28 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Discrate
wow nice work! I liked the last bit with the dog :P

I filmed the dog one weeks ago.... and it's not last :S
RE: YAY New Animations by vikke on 12-08-2007 at 08:30 AM

Well done, pretty entertaining. You seem to have put a lot of work on this.

RE: YAY New Animations by CookieRevised on 12-08-2007 at 08:31 AM

Wow, you did all those? Awesome indeed....

And is it just me or have your skills improved a lot?

(y)(y)

RE: YAY New Animations by aNILEator on 12-08-2007 at 08:41 AM

You be the judge, I disabled frame blending too, so it's per frame, shouldn't be any blurring/much present I don't think. So in essence whatever is there, is whatever I filmed, rather than some smoothing by video editor

After about a week of 'getting back into it' as it'd been months since I'd last animated and learning how the uni armatures work best I think I improved greatly yes.

My favourites are Creeping, Tightrope walk and lifting a heavy weight.

I'll post a full list of requirements shortly

RE: YAY New Animations by vaccination on 12-08-2007 at 08:57 AM

quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised

And is it just me or have your skills improved a lot?
I agree, I thought the quality was a lot better, and I thought it was good before. Well Done (Y)
RE: YAY New Animations by aNILEator on 12-08-2007 at 09:00 AM

AM50029-1 Animation Principles Stop Motion Exercises List.

#1 TIMING

1.    Block-Animate moving in a straight line at a steady rate on 1’s.
2.    Block-Animate moving in a straight line at a steady rate on 2’s.
3.    Block-Animate moving in a straight line at a steady rate on 3’s.
4.    Repeat with perspective towards and away from camera.
5.    Block-Animate moving in a circle at constant speed looking down.
6.    Repeat from a low angle close to arc-perspective.


#2 EASE IN AND EASE OUT (FARING)

1.    Block-Accelerate from standing start to constant speed on 1’s.
2.    Block-Accelerate from standing start to constant speed on 2’s.
3.    Block-Accelerate from standing start to constant speed on 3’s.
4.    Block-Decelerate from constant speed to stop on 1’s.
5.    Block-Decelerate from constant speed to stop on 2’s.
6.    Block-Decelerate from constant speed to stop on 3’s.
7.    Block-Animate into frame and stop, pause for 8 frames, start again and animate out of frame.
8.    Block-Create a winding course with faring on the bends.
9.    Block-Create a spring cycle (constant left/right motion) and loop on PVR.
10. Block-Create a pendulum swing and loop on PVR.
11. Armature-Head turn without faring on 1’s.
12. Armature-Head turn with faring on 1’s.
13. Armature-Waist-up turn with faring on 1’s.

#3 ARCS

1.    Armature-Head turn with faring in an over-the-eye line Arc.
2.    Armature-Head turn with faring in an under-the-eye line Arc.
3.    Armature-Waist-up turn with faring in an over-the-eye line Arc.
4.    Armature-Waist-up with faring in an under-the-eye line Arc.

#4 SQUASH AND STRETCH

1.    Clay Ball as Rubber Ball bounce.
2.    Clay Ball as Wood Ball bounce.
- Take 2 - Ball bounced across screen
3.    Clay Ball as China Ball – CRASH.
4.    Clay Ball as Water Droplet – SPLASH.
5.    Armature - Squash and stretch classic turn with Arcs.

#5 WEIGHT AND BALANCE

1.    Lifting light weight with the whole body.
2.    Lifting heavy weight with the whole body.
3.    Pushing light weight with the whole body.
4.    Pushing heavy weight with the whole body.
5.    Pulling light weight with the whole body.
6.    Pulling heavy weight with the whole body.
7.    Tightrope walk.

#6 FOLLOW THROUGH AND OVERLAPPING ACTION

1.    Walk – Normal
2.    Walk – Creep
3.    Walk – Double bounce
4.    Walk – Robot
5.    Run.
*EXTRA* Dog Walk

#7 ANTICIPATION

1.    Jump.
2.    Run.
3.    Double take.
4.    Duck.

#8 SECONDARY ACTION

1.    Walking and waving.

#9 EXAGERATION

1.    Laugh.
2.    Sneeze.

#10 BREAKING JOINTS

1.    Throwing a ball.


Now you can check them off as the video progresses :O
RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by Eddie on 12-08-2007 at 01:01 PM

Lol thats cool, nice job, you sure put a lot of effort into these.

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by freak544 on 12-08-2007 at 01:02 PM

Nice animations it must off took ages to do it

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by prashker on 12-08-2007 at 02:51 PM

wow. that's really good :D

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by aNILEator on 12-08-2007 at 07:33 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Eddie
Lol thats cool, nice job, you sure put a lot of effort into these.
Yeah I did :) there's a few I'm not exactly happy with but they'll do

It's hard to judge effort v quality though, because members of my class put a lot of effort in (whereas I put effort in but I know how it works/works in theory and can imagine how many frames I'll need to do what I want), but their animations aren't as good quality as mine

Not meaning to sound big headed/hurtful at all with that statement, someone's laugh is way better than mine for example, but most people seemed to fail to grasp 24 Frames Per Second = 24 photos are needed, some worked on 2's {doubling up frames} but then some people also kept changing the playback speed too, which although slows down/speeds up the animation to look better whilst playing, doesn't help the actual taken photos look any better when exporting (does anyone understand me *-)?)

I can see that they've improved as time went on however so maybe once they've grasped editing they'll have it looking good.

I have still have lots to do, will be a big struggle for me to finish it.
RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by albert on 12-08-2007 at 07:37 PM

Pretty cool, I remember doing a short one in high school, takes a  lot of damn patience. =)

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by Patchou on 12-08-2007 at 07:46 PM

nice, some people on this forum have talent!

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by Tasha on 12-08-2007 at 07:56 PM

I LOVED the water droplet. Very awesome work. ;]

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by aNILEator on 12-08-2007 at 09:07 PM

thanks :)

I'll post the 20second one tomorrow if i get it started and finished :$

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by kezz on 12-09-2007 at 12:53 AM

Watching that, memories of watching some kids shows using that technique and wondering "how on earth do they do that?". Pro stuff, keep it up

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by aNILEator on 12-09-2007 at 03:36 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Kezzinator29
Watching that, memories of watching some kids shows using that technique and wondering "how on earth do they do that?". Pro stuff, keep it up

It's such a brilliant medium to work in. Ever since I first saw Wallace and Gromit I wanted to do it.

It truly can create a magical feel and leave you asking questions as you yourself said.

I think it's a real shame there's more and more CG animated TV Shows pushed to kids these day, the magic is out of it because everyone knows it's not real and anything and everything can be done with it these days. Sure I've enjoyed and respected a few, the more creative ones usually (I have no problem with CG Films). But in general I don't care much for CG or anime TV shows for kids.

I think you/kids can't relate to it which makes a big difference. People can, will and do go on forever about old cartoons and can relate to others with them too, I've met people in their adulthood who still wondered how clangers was made!

I'll make an example using "Button Moon" a very cheap puppet production where most of the characters and models were made from Kitchen Utensils Mr. Spoon being the main character, had a rocketship clearly made from a Heinz baked Beans tin simple stuff that most kids could relate too, not that I'm saying kids shows needs to be cheap and made with bean tins but it was very popular at the time (and I've seen some Button moon T-shirts about too).

There are timeless classics like Bagpuss and Old Bear Stories that used toys as their characters, something all kids of all ages have and love.

I found a good list of old and new stop-motion animations on Toonhound.com

Stop-motion series

  THE ADVENTURES OF PARSLEY
  ANDY PANDY  (Cosgrove Hall)
  ASTRO FARM 
  BAGPUSS
  BERTHA
  BILL AND BEN (Cosgrove Hall)       
  BOB THE BUILDER
  BOB THE BUILDER: PROJECT:BUILD IT
  BRAMBLY HEDGE
  BROOMSTICK COTTAGE 
  CAMBERWICK GREEN
  CHARLIE CHALK
  CHIGLEY   
  CHORLTON AND THE WHEELIES
  THE CLANGERS   
  COCKLESHELL BAY
  CREEPY CRAWLIES
  DOCTOR OTTER
  EDWARD AND FRIENDS
  EL NOMBRE
  ENGIE BENJY
  FIFI AND THE FLOWERTOTS
  FIREMAN SAM
  THE FLUMPS   
  THE GINGERBREAD MAN
  GOGS!     
  GRAN
  GRANDMA BRICKS OF SWALLOW STREET
  GRIZZLY TALES FOR GRUESOME KIDS
  THE GUBLIN LEGENDS       
  HATTYTOWN TALES     
  THE HERBS 
  HUXLEY PIG
  JOSHUA JONES
  THE KOALA BROTHERS
  LAVENDER CASTLE   
  LITTLE RED TRACTOR
  LITTLE ROBOTS
  MAGIC ROUNDABOUT
  MERLIN THE MAGICAL PUPPY
  MOLLY'S GANG
  MORPH
  MOSCHOPS
  NODDY
  OAKIE DOKE
  OH! MR TOAD!
  OLD BEAR AND FRIENDS
  PADDINGTON
  PINGWINGS
  POGLES WOOD
  PORTLAND BILL
  POSTMAN PAT (Ivor Wood)
  POSTMAN PAT (Cosgrove Hall)
  REX THE RUNT
  ROCKY AND THE DODOS
  ROCKY HOLLOW
  RUBBADUBBERS
  SALLY AND JAKE
  SKIP AND FUFFY
  STORIES FROM TOYTOWN
  THE STORY STORE
  SUMMERTON MILL
  TOM AND VICKY
  THE TRAPDOOR
  TRUCKERS
  TRUMPTON
  UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS BEARS
  WIND IN THE WILLOWS
  THE WOMBLES
  YOHO AHOY
RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by Phillip on 12-09-2007 at 06:27 AM

Wow thats really neat (y)

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by Volv on 12-09-2007 at 06:37 AM

Gumby :D

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by aNILEator on 12-09-2007 at 07:34 AM

It's not Gumby Volv. I don't even use much plasticine :P

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by xJ + on 12-09-2007 at 04:10 PM

HOT!
Make your final video available for download in high quality, kay thanks. (:
I really do like what you have done.

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by aNILEator on 12-09-2007 at 04:46 PM

I only have my Dog armature, I really need the human one, guess I'll have to go to sleep soon and wake up real early and jump into the workrooms at uni.

http://nile.zerogen.net/videos/principles.mp4 is the DV-PAL Widescreen video @ 15MB :)

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by Omar on 12-10-2007 at 11:15 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Patchou
nice, some people on this forum have talent!
I agree, maybe you need to hire him so Plus is not the piece of junk that it is today....:refuck:

In all seriousness... really nice work Nile... I wish i had the talent/patience to do that.... (y)
RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by aNILEator on 12-10-2007 at 01:04 PM

got the 20 second piece down and handed in :D

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by SikStyles on 12-10-2007 at 01:53 PM

How do you do stop-animate airborn things? :P

RE: RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by Volv on 12-10-2007 at 04:01 PM

quote:
Originally posted by aNILEator
It's not Gumby Volv. I don't even use much plasticine :P
lol, I'm just saying that you forgot to mention Gumby in your list of animations :D
[Image: 200px-Gumby_pokey.JPG]
RE: RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by djdannyp on 12-10-2007 at 05:22 PM

quote:
Originally posted by SikStyles
How do you do stop-animate airborn things? :P

yeah, i was wondering that

i couldn't see any thunderbirds style strings :P
RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by aNILEator on 12-10-2007 at 06:12 PM

Gumby is an American thing, all the list i gave are from British animation studios I think :) (and I just copy pasted it from toonhound anyway :P) I'll post the 20 second animation online when I get home :)

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by vaccination on 12-10-2007 at 06:54 PM

quote:
Originally posted by djdannyp
i couldn't see any thunderbirds style strings (Smilie)
Because thunderbirds wasn't made with plasticine type stuff?

I imagine you'd just use a string or some sort of stand to hold it in place 8-)
RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by aNILEator on 12-11-2007 at 07:31 AM

we used a fishing wire attached to a bar with some pins, overhead of the set then we could adjust the pins to adjust height and position, to simulate in the air stuff

PS: Youtube is still performing maintenance and i can't upload this >> http://nile.zerogen.net/videos/20seconds.wmv

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by kezz on 12-11-2007 at 09:20 AM

Wow! Brilliant. Hope you get top marks for that, really quality stuff.
Do you write a 'script' or storyboard or something? or is it completely spontaneous?

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me by aNILEator on 12-11-2007 at 12:16 PM

that one was quite spontaneous :P

I did have a planned one out but I was under pressure to get it done VERY quickly so I just did whatever seemed to fit my mood/actions :P

originally he was going to trip over something and then pick it up and throw it away

and on this one I was going to have him just throw it away too till I saw it was so mushed into his hand that it wouldn't come off so I started flapping it about and it kinda came off a bit so I just thought ooo what if it splats all over him :D

BTW youtubed 20 second one now http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7E8_XOvJFxU

:)

RE: YAY 50 New Stop Motion Animations by me. +20 second piece by Sunshine on 12-11-2007 at 12:29 PM

lol @ 20 second one

Made me smile :D