Animation

Throughout my Animation following the theme of pong I have used the stop motion technique and also using cut out coloured shapes which represent the main characteristics within my animation. I did not use artificial light for this as the production was accomplished at home. Although the lighting changes throughout the animation due to the lighting been natural, the lighting is for ever changing from light to dark. I think that this has given my Animation an advantage on a good level as the changing light's match the eerie high pitch tone that carries out through my chosen part of the song 'How To Smoke'. However, the lighting is not professionally made with using the Adobe After Effect's program, the natural light give's it that bit extra effect as I have taken a digital online played game and created it by hand giving a more natural influence to my animation.

Development Of Animation

For my final animation I have decided to still go with the theme of pong to lead for my final animation but I have taken a second opinion from one of my University Tutor's and produced my animation by using cut out shape's and a camera to use for stop motion. My animation consists of 12 frame's per second which I felt was a comfortable rate to work with, it flow's quite well at 12 frames per second and displays it well.
Here I have taken screen shot's of my process of developing my Animation in after effect's.

 Here is the process of how I organised my images for animation. On Mac software there is a programer called Automator where you can quickly re-name your images by using numbers from 1 to 353 and so on. This was far better than going through each image and re-naming them individually.

 Here is where I got the necessary files for my animation which would have been all the images which i imported by image sequence so the images would then be in order and at 12 frames per second. I also imported the edited audio file into my animation where the images would run along with my chosen part of the song.

This is the final stage at where I am editing my setting's ready for rendering my animation to upload to YouTube where I can then Show in my blog for final submission.