Today we were introduced to animation, which is creating an illusion of movement with frames of images, and metamorphosis, the ability to facilitate change from one form to another without edit.
Our first task was to create a gif, which loops frames to create a moving image, that facilitates change in pairs, so my partner and I started to brainstorm ideas. Our initial ideas were very basic and a bit cliche but after further discussion, we came up with the concept of using microscopic and macroscopic illustrations, in a similar style of "Powers of Ten"; a short documentary by Charles and Ray Eames.
Our idea was to create illustrations of an individual looking at an image of the Earth on their phone, zooming in further and further on the image and eventually ending in the same starting point of the image. We created the illustrations on paper and the captured these illustrations on a gif making app.
I feel this came out successful and I enjoyed producing it, I also really enjoyed the illustration aspect of it. My pair and I worked well together, shared the workload equally, and came up with a strong concept. However, I feel the video is missing large gaps between the frames and if we had more time, adding more frames would make the zooming smoother and convey our idea with more strength.
Our next task was to create a stock motion animation, that facilitates change into one 'world' to another, in larger groups, in my group we quickly brainstormed and bounced ideas off each other and then went straight into the process of making the animation. Our idea was to have a character, a coat, that we would animate to look like it was committing suicide and the descend up to heaven.
We took photographs of our coat 'character' all over the campus and the O2, making sure not to get any of our hands in the frame, which was quite difficult because we had to hold the coat upright for most of the images. We also created angel wings to reinforce the 'descent' of the coat into heaven, which I thought strongly conveyed our idea. It was also difficult and time-consuming to go through and pick the best frames as we had taken so many.
Overall, I feel our final animation was an interesting concept and made light of a serious matter, which created a quite 'tongue-in-cheek' final outcome. We worked well as a group and captured many images, which contributed to, what I consider, a successful outcome.
