12 Principles of Animation

5: Follow through and overlapping action

This principle is used to finish up actions after one action has already been completed. Such as when a character stops, there hair keeps falling until it is still. It is a very important action to make stop motion look more real.

6: Slow-out and Slow-in

This principle shown how many frames there will be in different timing of an acton. In the beginning there might be a lot of frames to make the action look smooth, near the middle there are less frames to make the action hold up a little, and near the end there are more frames once again.

7: Arcs

This effect is used to create a smooth circular effect.

Techniques for Stop Motion Animation

This tutorial is very helpful to use with stop motion. The guy talks about how to set up the camera so it is very firm and still. Plus he talks about some cool techniques to do with stop motion, like the dry erase board he uses to do so. He also explains what materials he uses to set up and make the animation itself.

Phenakistoscope

How it works:
The phenakistoscope uses the persistence of motion. This technique creates an illusion of movemnet.
History:
In 1832, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and his sons introduced the phenakistoscope. It was also invented independently in the same year by Simon von Stampfer.
Interisting Facts:
The machine is actually not being modified between frames, but is just being spun, the result is an effect of motion.

Stop Motion Animation Video

Gulp - Stop Motion Animation Video Review

I was very surprised that "Gulp" was made using real people and a life size set. I loved the edea of using a real person and the day/night cycle. It must have been hard to take the shots, because they talked a lot about waves interrupting there work. When I was watching the video, I would have never thought that the set was actually that big, but because of all the very fine details, you cant even notice that.

Artist Statement

In this art piece I drew a chess piece on a table. It is positioned on the corner of a table. The chess piece is realistic because of the dark value I integrated into it and because it is standing on a shelf, it is still and not moving. The proportion of the chess piece is quite big. It stands tall in front of the composition. This gives a sense of balance. The background is a pattern of a checked board. Dark value is used on the chess piece to create emphasis.

To make my chess piece visually appealing and not to position it in the centre of the art board I decided to put the chess piece on a wooden shelf on the side of the composition. This is where the rule of thirds comes in. I tried to put the chess piece in the centre vertically and more to the left square horizontally.

To make the chess piece stand out and to put emphasis on it I added a metallic look to it, using value. The metallic makes the chess piece look shinny and smooth apart form the rough background and the wooden textured shelf. This makes the chess piece stand out.

Daumier Group Art - Edited

This is an edited version of the Daumier group art we drew. I corrected the perspective of the image and adjusted a higher level of contrast to emphasize the texture of the charcoal and to display the artwork better and more clearly.