day 10 - animation practice

The animation exercises that we did today were fun and exciting. We were practicing working on three different types of stop motion animation, charcoal, sand, and paint. My group with Natalie and Knox started first with charcoal animation. I was the first volunteer to animate something onto the frame. My first idea was to start animating Captain America’s shield a little bit at a time. After that I erased the inside portions of the shield to create the symbol for Black Widow, then I erased that and just drew a swirling pattern. After Natalie and Knox did their share of charcoal animating, we moved on to the sand animation. I admit that this process was probably my favorite method sense it offered a bit more freedom in terms of originality. We used 6 different colored sands, red, blue, green, yellow, orange and purple to create an original random piece of art. By moving the sand with our fingers and palate knife, we just created the entire piece full unique patterns and forms. Next we moved on to the painting animation. This was the shortest process we worked due to time constraints. Again we just painted random patterns onto the paper, and in fact to me, one pattern looked so recognizable that I painted in a hidden peace sign within the other surrounding patterns. After all of us in the class have had a chance to work each station, we uploaded our videos onto the desktop and viewed our work along to the music of three artists. Starting tomorrow, my group will start on our project using the charcoal and sand techniques that we practiced with today, seeing that they both seem to fit the story telling style that we preferred at the beginning of class.