ANIMATION SPRINT TWO

STOP MOTION  ANIMATION

SO SECOND WEEK IN AMG (ANIMATION AND MOTION GRAPHICS) DEPARTMENT AND WE WERE DIVIDED INTO GROUP OF SIX TO CREATE A ONE MINUTE SHORT ANIMATION FILM. WE WERE HAPPY ASWE WERE DIVIDED INTO GROUPS BUT WE HAD SOME CONDITIONS WHICH WE HAD TO MAKE SURE  WE FOLLOW WHILE  MAKING OUR FILMS. THEY WERE:

   1.            USE OF A TABLE.

   2.            USE OF A DOOR.

   3.            HUMN ELEMENT CANNOT TAKE STEPS

   4.            A FRAME OF ANY SOLID COLOUR FOR 2 SECONDS

   5.            USE OF THE WORD CONTACT.

   6.            DURATION HAD TO BE 60 SECONDS.

I AND  MY TEAM( RISHIK, SHRUTI, BHUSHAN, PRIYAL, RAJAT) PICKED A CORNER OF OWR CLASS AND ALONG WITH OUR METOR HIROCK SIR STARTED THINKING OF STORIES KEEPING THE CONDITIONS. AFTER 2-3 ATTEMPS WE FINALLY CAE UP WITH A STORY WHICH WOULD SATISFIE ALL THE CONDITIONS. AND STORYBOARDING WAS DONE.

THE MAIN TASK AFTER FINAISING THE STORY WAS DECIDING WHERE WILL THE SHOOTING OF THE FILM TAKE  PLACE? HOW WILL IT TAKE PLACE 2D OR 3D?

AFTER LOTS AND LOTS OF DISCUSSION WE DECIDED WE WILL SHOOT SOME SCENES IN 2D AND SOME IN 3D. AND WE FINALIZED OUR OWN CLASSROOM AS THE LOCATION FOR 2D  PART OF OWR FILM. FOR THE 3D PART WE FINALIZED TWO PLACES FIRST ONE WAS FIRST FLOOR OF OUR MESS AND SECOND WAS BACKSIDE OF ANTICLOCK THAT IS NEAR F2.

FOR 2D SCENE THE SET WAS ON FLOOR THAT IS WE STUCK GREY CHART PAPERS ON FLOOR AS OUR BACKGROUND AND PAPER CUT OUTS FOR BUILDINGS AND OTHER PROPS FOR OWR IMAGES.

ANOTHER CHALLENGE WAS CAMERA. THE CAMERA ANGLE WAS TOP ANGLE FOR THAT WE HAD TO PUT OUR CAMERA PARALLEL TO THE FLOOR AND AT CERTAIN HEIGHT FROM FLOOR. SO FOR THAT WE ISSUED THE BIG TRIPOD STAND AND SET OUR CAMERA.  THE MAIN PROBLEM IN THIS  WAS BECAUSE CAMERA WAS AT SUCH A HEIGHT WE WERE NOT ABLE TO REACH THE BUTTON SO THAT WE COULD CLLICK PICTURE, SO WE USED SNAPBRIDGE SHOOT ON MOBILE MODE WHICH AFTER A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME USE TO DISCONNECT AUTOMATICALLY AND THE WHOLE SHOOT WAS PAUSED ASIT WAS UNTIL IT USE  TO RECCONECT. THIS WHOLE CAMERA PART TAUGHT ME THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR ANIMATION WHICH WAS PATIENCE. 

AND TO GET ALL OUR TEAM MEMMBERS TOGETHER SO THAT WE COULD SHOOT AFTERBREAK TIME PLUS SMAL SMALL FIGHTS AMONG US TAUGHT ME TIME MANAGEMENT, TEAM WORK, ACHIVE TARGET WITHINN GIVEN TIME AND MOST IMPORTANTLY COORDINATION.

A WHOLE NEW EXPERIANCE WORTH REMMEMBERING.