WEEK 2

This week the new project was about other type of traditional animation. On this occasion we had to draw on paper each frame, using a light box and the peg bar to help us and then re draw them on cells. To finally paint them with acrylics and take pictures of them to make the film.

We first started designing the character that was going to be animated. It had to be a quite simple and basic shaped one, because it will be easier to animate.

I chose to do a plant creature , that was going to be in a plant pot and it will jump out of it. It took me quite a long time to think and imagine how would this little creature would come out of it. So I spent most of the class trying to get every gesture and move right.

I think I did a pretty good job, since the film that I did on Dragon Frame to see if the fluidity of the frames was correct, looked quite well.

Because I didn't finished drawing on the clear cells, I had to take it home and I am still working on it.

I am planning on filming it inside my house, where the real plant pots are, so I make sure that it actually interacts with the real world.

I think it is a very interesting activity but laborious. If you keep it simple it assumable, but thinking about movies like Aladdin or Snow white, that they were made like this, it's crazy the amount of work and effort that those movies have.

Overall I felt confident during the process,I think  I followed the main animation rules, like squash and stretch or not changing the volume of the figure between frames. But it did take a lot of time to try accomplish those.

I have to try to work faster but when I'm invested in something I forget about the time and I give it as much I think I need for it, until it looks how I want it to.