final animation

This is my final stop frame animation to the track of Sun, Drums & Soil.

Stills from the frames that will make up my final animation

I decided the backdrop to this animation should be a beach because of the imagery provoked when I first listened to the piece of music, Sun, Drums & Soil. Some of the first things that came to mind as I listened to it were a warm place such as a beach setting.

The ending of the animation is a childish belief in payback for one of the people that covered her in sand in the first place!

I believe this story board idea covers all the 3 main points I decided on at the start of this project:

-Warm

-Confusing

-Changing

The setting covers the idea of "warmth" and the "confusion that occurs as the person being covered in sand wakes up to realise what's going on, and finally, its a changing pace. It starts off quite slow and tranquil, then becomes more manic as the story unfolds and the two people pulling the prank get a taste of their own medicine!

The chase scene will have to be extended to make this animation up to 30 seconds long.

refining my story idea

This is the story board I have come up with so far:

 Closer up, the story goes like this:

From here Person 1 gets up after realising what has happened & starts chasing person 2 & 3 around the beach and eventually to the shore line where he pushes one of the culprits into the sea as payback!

This is quite a fast paced idea similar to the beat of the piece of music & I believe it suits the piece of music that will be played over the final animation.

playing around with stop frame animation

These are some very short stop frame animations I made using scrabble letters & bananas. This was just a practice to see how I'd best construct my final submission. These experimental stop frames taught me that I'll need to keep the camera in a central position to keep a steady frame shot. Also I'll have to make the movements more precise to keep a better flow to the animation.

story board ideas

From the 3 words I got from listening to the piece of music "Sun, drums & oil"I then went on to mind map around my 3 chosen words:

The main ideas to come out of this were:

-beach/sunshine

-"what's going on??"

-motion/movement

These are the words I want to base the ideas of my animation around.

I came up with this idea, shown here in story board form: