Producing my own E4 Ident using stop motion animation

For my college project I am to make an E4 Ident using stop motion animation techniques, it has to last about 10 seconds which means around 200 photos, i'm working in a group of 4.

Week 1

I started storyboarding my idea last week and it went well, i have decided after careful thought to use face paint for the design so it can be easily washed off. The arm that is going to be used is going to placed on white paper so there is a clean background, we are also going to use custom lighting, this is because we can beam the light down on the arm and film it in any location as the light will stay consistent.

Week 2

My group has finished the production log and we have all decided which roles we are going to take. We have no face paint at this time so we are unable to start making our animation, we have however planned to take some test photos to see what lighting we'll need to give our animation the best look and feel.

I hope that next week we can start making the animation, it shouldn't take long as there aren't many props required, all we need is the paint and some cleansing wipes and it should go pretty smoothly.

Week 3

Today one of our group members who was responsible for drawing wasn't in, so we sorted out our paperwork and what we wanted to do for a set so when she's back we can easily start the animation and get it done quickly and smoothly. This was our last lesson dedicated to the animation so we will have to do find a lunch break to do it in before next thursday.

Week 4

We found a lesson we could use to catch our animation on camera, we finished it in 40 mins, we have got the images off of the memory card and on to the computer, resized the images, and put them in to flash.

We then found approriate audio, edited it in Audacity, and put it with the animation, the timing is perfect.


Animation finished!