Stop motion animation

Stop Motion Animation

Stop motion animation- 
In animation, stop motion animation is a cinematic process, or technique used to makes static objects appear as if they were moving. This technique is commonly used in claymation and puppet-basedanimation.


Examples- 
Wallace and Gromit 















Coraline

Inspirartion

Brief

Target Audience

• 7-11
• Children into action and superhero 

Form & Style

• Realistic colours and shapes
• Unrealistic cartoon based features (e.g. abnormally large eyes)
• Ed Edd n Eddy style? 
• Based on forest animals; flying squirrel, flying fox 
• Evil white rat with red eyes in white suit with gold

What characters will be based on 

• Superhero duos and teams
• Best friends
• Main character (e.g. Batman) and sidekick (e.g. Robin)
• 1 "big boss" enemy (Rat) + little minion squad (mice) 

Scenery

• HQ/hideout in tree in back garden
• Street scene + alley way
• Night time based

Exploring and experimenting 

• Free hand drawing
• Illustrator
• Look at similar styles (e.g. Ed Edd n Eddy) 

What I intend to produce

• 2 groups, good and bad side
• Superhero and sidekick
• Big boss and minions

Vector tracing with the pencil tool

What is the difference between vector and raster graphics?
Vector is a solid based object and raster is made out of small pixels.

Idea Generation

Villain for Fly-High and Huggy

• Animals that dislike squirrels e.g. dogs, foxes, cats.
• Dark colours + reds
• Big red eyes and sharp big teeth
• Sharp fur
• Sharp claws

Anthropomorphic characters

Arthur is an 8 year old anthropomorphic aardvark, who is made to look more human by adding glasses and clothing and a standing body structure, with hands like human's and wears clothes. He is a beige colour, however it is not similar to the colour of a real life aardvark and has more bear-like ears than an aardvark. He behaves and leads the same life like humans, he attends school and plays with friends.

Pet Squad consist of a guinea pig, dog and a cat, all common household pets who part time act like normal pets and the other they save the world. The guinea pig is animated to look like he has fur and all the animals are of similar colour to their real life characters. When normal pets they shrink down to normal size, but when they become superheroes they become anthropomorphic and enlarge in size, they put on superhero costumes and are able to talk. 

  

Fly-High and Huggy are two squirrels, but unlike real squirrels they're red and blue with fingers and are able to talk. Their main focus is to collect nuts and have a strange obsession with them. The animators have not chosen to show them having fur however there are small details on the ears like hair lines to suggest they are, like their real life characters.