Week Final – Jinha Lim

* Time to Setup: 2 days

* Time to Animate: about 4 days

* Software Used: iStopMotion & iMovie / Illustrator for puppet making

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* Problems encountered & comment: In the beginning of my process working on my final, I first had some difficulties choosing the best narrative for my piece. I changed my story twice, but ended up choosing the best one at the end! I chose to use paper cut-outs & found objects as my puppets.

My stop motion animation is a story of an egg’s dream. There are two different scenes in the animation, which are the dream and the reality scenes. I chose to use paper cut-outs as my puppets for the dream part, and found objects for the reality scenes. I drew my characters using illustrator and used them for the shooting as well as the background. For the transitions between the real & dream, I tried using zooming in into the certain part of the scene, and zooming out with the elements of the next scene that have the same/similar color of the elements from the previous scene.

Especially, the part when the egg goes up to the sky from the sea was a bit tricky to animate. Using a long background I created, I kept the camera in the same position and moved the background down as well as animating the egg going up. I first tried animating the background really fast, so that I could get a blurring effect. However, it was too difficult and didn’t turn out well, so I gave up doing it. Instead, I animated the background slower, so that I could animate the egg easily.

After I finished animating and importing my images into the iStopMotion software, I had my images cut out on the side for some unknown reason. I tried changing the size of the frame in iStopMotion, but didn’t work. (The frame of my final animation is a bit different from the original images.)

Throughout the whole story of my animation, the audience should be able to connect the whole storyline after they watch the entire animation. (Like.. why the egg dreamed of being in the water, being chased by a tweezers, and getting hot from the sun in the sky, etc.)

Overall, I really enjoyed shooting this animation with my own narrative! I hope I had more detailed story, so that I could have made longer animation. However, I’m happy with how it turned out now. If I have an extra time in the future, I’ll definitely go back and revise it to be better ^.^*

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