Untitled from Joanne Catlow on Vimeo.
This is one of my first attempts to 'animate' my weedy sea dragon and some would possibly say it is less than an attempt. I think I am a bit too scared of after effects so need to loosen up a bit and experiment some more.
This really isn't anywhere near what I want to be happening. Definitely need to play around more.
Monday, 31 January 2011
stop motion weedy sea dragon
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I have just simply tested what the idea of negative space would look like when it comes to movement/shadow etc. The colours are perfect to me, really simple and still lots of depth. I want to add a crumpled paper texture to the sea so as to add a little more detail.
Also, I will be animating this in after effects not as a stop motion image but this was simply just a test to see if it is worth doing.
Friday, 28 January 2011
Negative Space
After designing the title. I have been thinking a lot more about negative space and using this throughout the animation. It adds depth in itself and could imagine it working really well throughout.
As shown here I would cut the fish out of the paper, though rather cut it out of the dark blue colour and then place the colour of the fish behind it. This would also then be animated so that the fish would be moving around the deep blue paper.
Due to the freedom of after effects I will be able to change angle of the image, sometime the fish could fly past and sometime I could follow it.
Title development.
At first I tried simply cutting it out of coloured paper but didn't get the desired effect.
I then realised, from the paper I had cut it out from, that the negative space of the word worked really well. Really clean cut and simple.
Bright colours, characterised type.
This really suits the young target audience.
PAPER!!!
Saw a really beautiful and fun animation on you tube and it was mainly produced from paper textures. (on my context blog)
This got me excited about the potential of paper, its simplicity and tactile nature even when working on screen.
Visual development
Also for the Title of the sequence (Top 10 weird and wonderful sea creatures) I want to create hand drawn type also. Ofcourse I will play around wit layout etc on the computer first probably and see what sort of Type face works best for the target audience.
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Monday, 10 January 2011
Thursday, 6 January 2011
dissolve
Untitled from Joanne Catlow on Vimeo.
Although simple, I wanted to get my head around doing various movements etc at the same time and for each individual letter to be independent. This is just rough but felt good to get started with it after just doing loads of story boarding.
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
'Pop' floating like a balloon
Untitled from Joanne Catlow on Vimeo.
For one of my animations I want the word pop to float up into the centre of the screen for the 'O' to grow in size, then pop and then the 'P''s to float back down and lie at the bottom of the screen. I have been attempting to manipulate the sense of a balloon floating. This was my first attempt. It is a bit too fast and there are too many angles.
Untitled from Joanne Catlow on Vimeo.
This is the second attempt which I am happier with. Though I will have to use create a layer for each letter so that the 'O' can increase in size on its own.
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