My Animation compared to others

In this post I will compare my animation to other people's animations.

These are from my own animation which features Jason, a small cut out figure from Friday the 13th, traveling from London, England to Rome, Italy. He walks past the 2 famous landmarks of both cities.

These screenshots are from Cameron Loftus' animation. The storyline appears to be a superhero of some sort flying around Europe and Italy. He also made use of my map and picture of the Colosseum which I used in my own animation.

This is from Tim's animation titled "Lego Dayz'. It is set in a lego based world and although the storyline is hard to pick up on, it appears to be about one lego figure attacking another lego figure for no particular reason. It is a good animation however because the music fits in with it and it is short.

This is actually one of my favourite animations. Made by Marco, it is a recreated animation of a Mario type of video game. It is quite realistic to the game which is what I like about it. It has been very well made and the background is from actual video game footage.

Extra Research

Here are some facts and figures about different types of animation:

Cell Based Animation - The Simpsons

• Created by Matt Groening
• Started in 1989
• First appeared as a short on the Tracy Ullman Show in 1987

Model Based Animation - Gumby

• First model based animation
• Original run 1955 to 1989
• 30 minutes run time

Cut Out Animation - South Park

• Created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone
• Originally started in 1997
• 22 minutes run time

Response to comments on my animation

This is my response to the comments I have received on my animation. First off, I do agree with many of the comments in response to my animation. The music worked well with the animation and it was very smooth, however I feel that I could have made some improvements, for example perhaps shown the figure of Jason on the video more as throughout London and Italy not much more than his head could be seen. I think the video was not too long and not too short so the time was perfect. I would have added information about the music on the end credits but at the time when I wrote the credits I had not got the music so I did not know what it was going to be. I have enjoyed working on this StopMotion Animation.

My Animation

This is my animation, NJOY

How I made my animation

Now my animation is complete I will explain how I made it. First off, I had to decide exactly what I wanted my animation to be. Since I have an interest in traveling I decided it would be about that. I managed to take some screenshots from Google Maps of the UK, Europe and Italy. I also got printed off a small figure which was Jason from the 1980s film "Friday The 13th". I printed off pictures of Westminster in London and the Colosseum in Rome. I created in iStopMotion the figure walking from England to Italy and showing the pictures of the 2 cities. After the animation was created I added titles and credits in iMovie and added music in Garageband. The music was traveling music found on YouTube. Here are some screenshots from iStopMotion and Garageband.

My Animation - UK to Italia

I have started work on my own animation. So far I have got a large A3 size map of Europe which will zoom into the UK. After that I will use my character, Jason, from Friday the 13th which will show him travelling from the UK to Italy. I will then show some photos of cities in Italy and give facts about those cities. Here is the work I have produced today. I did make a little bit of the movie but because I am an idiot I saved it to the desktop and it disappeared after I switched off. Stupid useless computers :(

Jason (my character)

Europe

Italia

UK

Ideas

An idea I have for my animation is a map of Europe and a figure moving from across the map from England to Italy. Then I could put some pictures of different cities of Italy and put them into the animation. I may also display some facts about those cities so it makes me video educational and fun.

Research for own animation

Here are some videos I looked at to give me ideas for my own animation:

water that eats from emily jameson on Vimeo.

Cookie from emily jameson on Vimeo.

first time lapse from Timothy Hodgson on Vimeo.

My Animation

An idea I have for my own animation is about countries. My 3 favourite countries are France, Italy and Greece. I am thinking I could do an animation based on them and give some facts about those countries that people may not know. I might use an animated map of the country or the name of the country, which the camera will zoom into and crossfade into pictures of various landmarks in that country with a caption about the country.

This is a video which I have added sound to. The music I have added is Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas. I done this by exporting both the video and the sound track to GarageBand and then fading the song out at the end.