Week 14 - 18th April - scene 03 part 2

Scene 03 part 02

Week 14 - 17th April - reshoot scene 03

Scene 03 - part 01 

First part of scene 03. 

I decided to spilt scene 03 in to two different shots so it will be more manageable to shoot.

Week 14 - 17th April - ending scenes test

Put together scene 007 (book falling) and the images which will have 2D animation on top of to see if the angles flow nicely together.

End scenes test

- Take out the zoom shot of Arthur and just have the two other shots. 
- I will do a set extension using photoshop/after effects to fill in the missing wall seen in the last shot

Week 14 - 16th April - exterior background

Dyeing a sheet a sky blue using ink. 

By hand dyeing the sheet it came out with a nice mixture of blue tones with some white patches which look like clouds.

Cutting the tree forest layer out of cardboard which will be placed behind the house.

Below is the template I will cut for my camera track. The idea is that the camera will be mounted on the rectangle block and the two strips on either side will be glued down on a piece of wood. The camera can then be placed between the two tracks and slide between them to give a once smooth and steady track.

Week 14 - 16th April - scene 007 Test 01

In this scene I had to use wire to steady the book as it fell. I will remove the wire using photoshop.

Scene 007 test 01

Week 14 - 15th April - Scene 004 test 03

Scene 004 Test 03

Timing worked much better in this test. However his arm still could drop a little quicker! 

Week 14 - 15th April - Scene 004 test 02

Scene 004 - Test 02

- Hands move too quickly when character goes to rub his chest

- Mouth moves way too much and does not make any sense…

- Must be careful with shadows being cast in background

- arm fall slightly quicker?

I am finding stop motion animation extremely challenging as I am shooting 'blind' (animating without any use of animation software or secondary live feed camera) and is very hard to judge the movements of the character even when following an exposure/dope sheet...