Week14!

<Week 14> Jennifer Choi

For my final, I have done something totally different from what you all saw last week!
It is one minute and twenty seconds claymation of a short story that I created.
This is an initial storyboard (it is hard to see what is going on with out description) but I have changed the story along the way. I think it is much better. It was nerve breaking to know that I was just starting a new final and serious unfortunate happened loosing 40 seconds of an animation on the way. (now, I do auto-save) I had to start over but I am so relieved to know that everything is done on time~!

• Software Used: istopmotion 2 crashes

• Time to Construct: a day
• Time to Animate: not sure how long it took ,but it took me less time than I thought.
• Problems encountered: I thought I set up the light well enough but there were still some light flickering. Because my animation continues on one set for about one and a half minute, it was demanding not to touch the background and I could not retouch my puppet on the way, so my frog was getting dirtier and morphing in to a monster. I have a cut in between when the frog looks down to check his honey jar and having heart attack after knowing it is empty. I stopped during the animation to go to a class and when I came back things were completely different. So I had to insert the little part of the frog’s view to get a smooth transition. There are some stuff I want to fix for timing sake especially the part where the frog thinks about his ingenious idea. I thought that is was too sudden, it was right after he looked at the bee and blinked. I wish I could move the frogs action couple frames back where the bee is almost out of the frame so that there is a bit of room to breath.
the Bee was moving across at the same time so I was not able to extend the pause.

So, the animation that I showed last week would be my transition assignment.

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