Stop MotionAnimation video - Elf Outer-Space (with titles and credits)

This video is the same thing as in the previous post, but this one has titles and credits. It was done in iMovie by dragging the movie itself onto the timeline and dragging the title card effect onto the timeline at the beginning of the movie. Then we edited the text inside the card to give the movie a title. We then dragged the credits card effect onto the timeline at the end of the movie and gave the characters names.

Stop MotionAnimation video

This is the video that was created with the models we made. I worked with Ashleigh and Fareeda in this video.

Green Thing

Model Animation

Model animation is designed to merge with action footage to make it look like it is in real world. It has been around since the 1940s. An example of model animation is Wallace and Gromit, which started in the 80s.

Wallace and Gromit from 1tom2go on Vimeo.

Cell-Based Animation

This is an example of Cell-Based Animation.


Homer Simpson!! from leo finiels on Vimeo.

Cell Based Animation is when each cell is reproduced on clear see-through plastic. The Simpsons (created by Matt Groening) originally started as cell-based but Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a popular example as well as any other Disney movie. Every cell is hand drawn and coloured.

Some facts and figures about The Simpsons:

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

Time Lapse Amimation

Here is an example of a time lapse animation

Cookie from emily jameson on Vimeo.

StopMotion Animation

Today we did a stop motion animation using cut outs from magazines. We used the program iStopMotion on the Mac computers and moved the cut outs slowly taking a new image each time (about 12 frames every second).  The camera we used was a special one for the Mac that only worked on FireWire. We have almost completed the video and it will be uploaded to Vimeo soon to be viewed on this blog.