For my original idea I knew I wanted to do stop motion and I knew I had to add different forms of animation. In order to meet the requirements I though someone getting shot by a bullet would enable me to get a lot of the requirements because a lot happens when someone gets shot by a bullet. SO, my idea was for someone to get shot, and then split up into multiple people for a good story, and an underdog/comeback story. Although that is what I ended up doing, it did not end up as well as I liked.
Some of the principles of animation I tried to use were, staging (moving the frame/point of view, to follow what the audience should focus on, for example when the 5 people were running), anticipation (when the guy moved his head out of the way of the gun), follow through (when the persons body pieces hit the floor), exaggeration (when he blew up into pieces), Solid drawing (the gun), and squash and stretch (when the people jumped). I think the most difficult for me was trying to figure out how to make my stuff have these principles of animation. This is because it is very difficult to make paper bend/move like a person does. So although I could make the paper jump I couldn't quite get its knees to bend. This also goes along with what the easiest part was for me. Moving the paper. I didn't have to draw characters over and over again, all I had to do was move the paper. I learned that animation isn't as easy as you may think. Although its pretty easy to move the paper around it is very difficult to make things look realistic.
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This is about the half way point of my video. This is before I add audio and some other effects. I think it looks ok right now, and some of the things such as the jumping looks, somewhat realistic.
In the middle of a battlefield, stands one man; stranded. He watched as all of his comrades fell, dead, before his eyes. As he contemplates his own defeat, an army of one hundred men approach him chanting a battle call. They all fire a barrage of bullets all at once, striking the lone soldier over and over again as he explodes into a hundred pieces. However, when each piece hits the ground, it grows into another man. Eventually, an army is formed. |
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