Monday (17/11/25):
I fell sick on this day, therefore I wasn’t able to help my groupmates with animating our character. Instead, I worked on Intro to Animation.
Wednesday (19/11/25):
Thankfully by this time I felt better, so we continued working on where Joe and Lucian left off. Lucian wasn’t in, so Joe and I tried to complete the animation as efficiently as possible.
We were given feedback on the animation that we currently had. Chris told us that we weren’t necessarily making our character transform, and that it would be good if there was a more impactful transformation. Moreover, our hands acted too human-like, and so Chris suggested we use pixilation to make them move and act differently to what we actually perceive them as. So, Joe and I had the idea of making our hands act almost like snakes that begin to consume our character in an almost slapstick manner. We would show our hands eating the character’s body, then rip out some cardboard and make it seem like he’s being devoured.
However, while executing this idea our camera began glitching, displaying an error when a frame was taken. We’d then have to turn the camera off and on everytime we captured a few frames, then move it back into position as it would become askew. It was such a pain to endure, and set us back a lot. By the end of the lesson, we still hadn’t finished the animation.
Friday (21/11/25):
Lucian came back and we explained our situation, then used the time we had left to complete the animation. By this time, the camera suddenly began to work again, and so we quickly finished our animation, and Joe added the finishing touches such as sound (using predownloaded effects and foley) during the break.
Afterwards, we presented our work, which took some time as each group was given feedback. By that time, I felt so drained from completing the animation, so I wasn’t able to participate in conversation when prompted or listen to feedback properly.
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Looking back at this rotation, while I did enjoy some aspects of stop motion animation, I don’t think it’s something that I want to pursue. If we instead used a different material such as clay or LEGO, I would have definitely reconsidered as I’m still not a fan of using cardboard. But overall, I’m happy with my group’s outcome and and how well we worked to create it.
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