Slight Change

I have decided to slightly change my idea, im going 

to have it so it is the last leaf on the tree and its trying 

to escape. This way it adds into the music better. 

This is my first attempt at trying to make this,

i think it needs some more background perhaps some

more branches.

Storyboard

Falling Leaf

Storyboard

I want it to be around 25 seconds i will need to cut the music in

two parts. the whole piece is 1.4o and i will take seconds; 

1-8

17-24

33-43

The first image, the one on the left will last around five seconds 

and it will be the initial drawing of the branch and leaves, but it wont 

have any detail or shading. 

The second image will be the section that will add in all the 

detail, i wanted to make it slightly abstract so i have created

some patterns on the leaves to make it a little more interesting.

This section will also last around five seconds.

In the third image, the leaf will be moving around with the branch

in the wind and then the small branch will break slightly getting

ready for the 4th image. 

This will last around 3 seconds. 

This 4th image shows the leaf actually breaking away

from the branch, i am going to have a little bit of paper 

animation from this second on. I will have an image of the leaf

at different angles getting bigger and bigger so it appears to be

moving. 

This section will last for around 4 seconds.

 

The last image shows how the leaf will fly off in the wind ( on the left)

and how i will make it more 3d in this section by moving the leaf to 

make it appear to be floating around. This will only last around three

seconds. 

The last image is the leaf finally falling into the river and the ripples

it then creates. Each ripple will have its own second so that it can 

spread out! This section will make up the last five seconds.

Development

My Favorite idea.

 I really like the idea of having the leaf falling from the tree as

as escape, so i have decided to start looking at ways in which

i could make it work properly to the music.

I want the beginning section to be just the leaf on the tree,

the music is quieter at the beginning so i don't want too much 

going on. 

As the music gets louder, the leaf will break away from the tree and

fall to the ground. 

This was my inital idea, having the leaf fall from the tree and then

into some water, either a puddle or lake. then with the ripples coming from

the leaf for the final second or two.

I have decided i will think of a few other ways that i could do this 

and perhaps achieve a better outcome.

With the first image, i have looked at how i can change the movement of 

the leaf as it falls. I think i want to do something more than the leaf just floating 

down, i want it to hit the wind and fly off at least a little.

In the second image, i have thought about how i could have more 

leaves on the tree so that i can animate them at the beginning 

and make it look a little better.

All though if i were to add more leaves at the beginning i would have 

to rethink my idea of the leaf being the last before winter and its

escape.

I thought that there could be a change at the end,

where someone was to step on the leaf and that be the

finl image you see. i wouldn't want to have 

a character in the animation just the shoe print.

Stop motion 3

This is my third attempt at making a stop motion, i think the 

overall quality of this one is better and the amount i fit into 

the time frame is better. It is more detailed but i have made 

this one at 30 frames per second. 

I want to do something like this and then have leaves falling off

when the beats hit. I want to make some of it paper motion to 

mix it up a little!

I have also created this one in colour to make it a little

different but for my final it will be in black and white

as i prefer it.

Stop Motion 2

Because i quite liked the way the previous attempt

worked out i decided to make another but a longer one

this time with 20 frames per second rather than 8 which

is what i used in my previous one. 

I still think that i need to get more of the drawing done in less

time but with perhaps more detail. 

This clip lasts for 10 seconds and i still think that is far

too long to get my whole idea in, as not a lot actually 

happens in this. 

Leaves & Vines

I really liked the idea of doing with leaves or vines 

for my animation so i wanted to look at some other 

animations that are fairly similar

 I like the way that this animation had shown the 

growth of the leaves and then showing them 

blowing off in the wind, which, although i don't

want to do mine exactly like this its very alike. 

I wanted to look at the way this person has made the 

leaves grow, and it looks like i could do it in stop motion 

or cell animation quite well.

I wanted to do it all hand drawn, but i'm not too sure that

it will look that good. but i want it quite abstract too so i will

have to play around with different techniques and see

which one looks the best and most professional.

 I love the way that this works and even though

it is quite fast in this one i could do all sorts with

it. it wouldn't matter what colour i wanted to do it

because  want it abstract and therefore different.

I really like the way that this artist has made the 

leaves appear and disappear by spinning, i think it 

looks really effective and it has made me want to do 

something like this. or incorporate something similar 

into my animation.

I know that this is a very sort animation but it has

a really smooth action for the leaf falling and how

it sways from side to side. this really helps me 

understand how i would draw this because i intend

on having leaves fall away from the vine. 

I need to do some more experimentation with my ideas

but for the moment this is my favorite idea. 

Stop Motion 1

From the idea that i have come up with, I really liked

the idea of having vines and leaves twining together 

and growing with the music.

I Have never really done any stop motion before

so i thought i would have a few test runs to see what

it actually looked like when it was all put together. 

This is my first attempt and i think it looks alright, i 

would have to look at how i could either incorperate

me actually drawing it into the idea or have it so you 

cant see my hand at all.

I also think for how much is drawn in the amount of time

is also an issue, I would need to have way more frames

per second to make it flow and progress quite quickly,

as i only have a 20-30 piece to animate. 

Vines

Growing Vines

In this idea, i want to make vines grow with the music, 

so at first i want there to be just the vine and no leaves,

and then as the music become louder and louder

more and more leaved will grow to be finally

left with a full branch.

The only issue with this idea, is the filming side of it.

to be able to get the camera angles right, will be very

difficult and speeding it up and slowing it down 

with each leaf growth will be difficult too. 

I do like this idea, it will just be quite difficult to

make look effective. 

Footsteps

Idea 1 - Footsteps 

 

From the Initial idea of creeping i thought

that this would be a good way to portray the music

having the footsteps appearing and then disappearing

as the person went along. As the music gets louder the

footsteps could get quicker.

there is an issue with this idea, is that it goes with the first part

of the sample but not with the second, and im not sure how i

would be able to make it fit with the second part as the first does

not last long enough for the whole animation. 

I would like to blur them out like has been done here.

but rather than have a fade effect on the whole thing, i want

to have each footfall fade as if the person has just picked their 

foot up. so the whole footprint will only last for half a second.  

I could make the feet stop moving half way through and then

have something fall to the floor in front, to go with the rest of the

music.

I was also thinking about using real shoe prints, by standing on 

some paint and then printing my shoes. i cold then animate these. 

Paint

Idea 2 - Paint

My second idea was to have a drop of paint splattering

onto some paper/surface. and then follow on the the trails

that would come off it!

at the beginning of the sample of music, i want to have a few

splashes of paint dropping around the initial drop to go along

with the music, and on each beat another will drop. 

again im not entirely sure how i could tackle the rest of the music

as this wont fill the whole 20-30 seconds, but with something added

onto the end i think that this may work very well.

i want each drop of paint to hit the paper at exactly the same time

as the beats in the music or i think that this piece will lose its effect. 

I will then have the camera follow the path that the paint takes

almost like a journey and with straws change the direction it runs 

in to make it more interesting. 

Leaf

Idea 4 - Leaf

With this idea i want to have the last leaf on the tree in winter 

and have it as an escape to the floor with the rest of the leaves.

I want to have the first part of the music as the leaf wriggling 

and trying to escape and then it will break free when the music

changes. The second part of the music reminds me of a wind,

so i think that the leaf falling down to the floor will go very well

with this.

 

When the leaf gets further down there will be some water that it will 

fall into, then there will be some ripples that willl come from the leaf

and that is how it will finish!

I also would do this in slow motion so you can actually see the leafs full

journey. 

Water

Dripping Water

This is my third idea. i wanted to film a tap dripping and

then slow it down so that you can physically see every part

of the waters movement into the sink. 

I think that this idea could work really well, especially if 

i am able to show a bit of water dropping into the sink every 

time a beat is heard on the sample. again this will have to be

timed very well so it will be difficult to do!

 

I want to be able to see every single bit of the water drop.

i may be able to change the sample a little and mix it around. 

this would work really well if i could have the middle section

of the music first becuase that will go with the water actually falling

and then the end could be each drop of water dropping into the 

sink. 

Flower

Idea 5 - Flower

This idea is quite simple in the way that all i want to happen is for a

closed flower to slowly open up and bloom, again this would only go 

with the first part of the music and so i would have to think of something

to go with the second part. 

The flower will open more and more with every beat of the 

music and then start of wither away, as i want this in stop motion too.

The withering away could go with the second part of the music 

as it would fit quite well. with the right shadowing it would work well. 

i could also have a petal of the flower falling to fit with the second

piece of music.

Ideas

CLOCKS

CREEPING 

DRIPPNG

These were the first 3 words i thought of when i listened to my

piece of music, I have made brainstorm to think of where

i could go with each of these words in the form of an animation.

The words that inspired me the most from what i have come up with

were; movement and gears, Vines and plants and paint splatter.

Walt Disney

I am going to look at the history of Walt 

Disney as a pioneer of the animating 

world.

I put this particular image because this is what Walt Disney

aspired to and created great movies because of his imagination

Mickey mouse was based on a pet mouse Disney had while

he was working in Kansas and became his biggest success and 

is now one of the most recognizable cartoon characters in history

The first short film that had Mickey Mouse in was called

"Plane Crazy" and this was a silent movie. Disney couldn't 

find a distributor that would take Plane crazy and then the 

second short film he created "The Gallopin Gaucho"

So he went back and this time created an animation with 

sound called "Steamboat Willie" Which a lot of people think 

is his first animation because it was the first to become famous.

Disney recieved a special academy award in 1932 for his 

creation of mickey mouse. This series was then made into

colour in 1935. Very soon after spin-offs were made, those

which included Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Pluto and Goofy.

When the Film Industry realized that Disney planned

to make a feature length they thought he was sure to fail

and named it "Disneys Folly" 

Snow white and the seven dwarfs became the most 

successful motion animation in 1938. Because of this

he released the other two motion pictures that he had

been working on in 1940. Pinocchio and Fantasia but these didn't

do nearly as well and were both financially disappointing.

Traditional Hand drawn animation, with which Disney 

Started his company, is no longer used at the Disney

studios due to many traditional Animations losing them

money in the long run. A few studios had to be closed down 

due to this and so they decided to stop doing them.

Most recently with the 2012 release of

Wreck-it Ralph

They decided that they would start using traditional hand

drawn aswell as computer animated animation. 

fxg : Sugar rush is another of the worlds- how was that realized?

Karsavage : that actually lent itself to a more classically styled animation-

it had some of the things we would bring down from our traditionally trained

artists . We actually had an effects designers on the show who could draw 

specific effects. Ralph had a pod he crashes into a candy cane forest

and so all the cake debris flying up from the surface of the ground - we 

had traditional animators draw that to give us an indication of what we 

should do in the digital world. 

In this area of the film, the game "Sugarcrush" quite a lot 

of it was actually created with traditional hand drawn animation

and then a few things added with computer animation. 

I really enjoyed this film and its attention to detail is 

incredible. the backgrounds constantly keep the viewer

occupied. The small things like the names and all of the sweets

in this area is fantastic. I think that they have pulled it off well.

How to.

I have started watching a few tutorials on how to make 

stop motion to see where i can make mine better. 

The first video is just the basics but i didn't think about 

extra lighting i might need to that has helped. 

This video aswell, is another that would be really

easy to make, its just knowing how many frames per 

second is needed to make a fluid animation,

The reason i have looked into paper animation is because its 

something that i am also considering. i think because its 

another form of stop motion it would work very well for 

my animation as i could incorperate it in and have the leaves

actually falling off the page in this way and have a very quick 

shutter speed to watch the paper fall. 

Paper Animation

Paper animation is yet another type of stop motion, 

using very similar techniques to the 3D clay animation usually. 

The images are drawn onto various colours of paper and then stop motion

photography is used to make the paper appear real and move.

This animation all though it does use 3D Imagery, that only tends to

be the main character/object in the scene and then all of the backgrounds 

such as buildings, trees and other objects. 

I really like the way that this is created, the mix of the 3D and the 2D

works really well.

This second paper animation works really well, its extremely 

fluid and mixes with the music really well. I like the attention to detail

taken here, the shadows among other things really stand out. This animation

also used 2D mixed with 3D and the beginning with the birds

is all 2D , but again this works really well. 

This animation seems more like something i could do, 

allthough its all only done on white paper i don't think it needs colour

and speaks for itself. 

This animation is all 2D imagery. each piece is a separate piece

of paper and it is just moved in each frame, no body parts move at all

and thats why this is such a simple way of animating, because nothing

needs to change, once the initial characters are created they can be used

over and over to create different scenes.

2D & 3D Clay Animation

Clay Animation involves creating a character out of clay

and moving each of the separate parts in turn and taking

a picture of each stage. because of how this type of animation

is made it is classed as stop motion. 

There are two types of clay animation, 2D and 3D

The only difference being that one is a 3D model and the 

other is a flat shape that is moved as one.

Wallace and Gromit

This is possibly my favourite type of animation, the way the clay slightly

changes each time creating slightly different facial expressions

and i think that this gives it a more real like form.

This is a very difficult and time consuming way of creating animation but 

thats becuase it one of the best ways to create animation.

I would love to use this in my animation but im not sure

i will be able to make it abstract enough.

2D Clay Animation

In this type of animation, the models are created in a 2D form

and then places on a flat surface which usually has the background on it, 

and placed so they look like they are standing. This is quite an effective

way of creating animation.

Although i think it will be hard to create and abstract piece with

3D Clay Animation i think that i would be able to do it on here 

quite successfully.