Replacement Stop Animation

Second term is all about stop motion animation. And the first week has started with a quite interesting task or rather two. Stickfas animation: personal and group. For the personal taske we needed to record a Stickfas  walk cycle. The second task included work in groups where we had to produce an animation of our choise with the same models. We each were given a set of figure parts that had to be assembled. It took me about 3 sets and a bit of blood to build a Stickfas model. It awfully resembles Spider Man!!! 

The next day started with mindmaping our ideas and sketching a storyboarding.  The idea we all agreed on, was 3run and tricking. After that was REASERCH. We each picked a couple of tricks a broke them down, considered the use of a ramp.

This video is a great reference to anyone who decides to animate motion. We have decided that our animation will begin with a backflip + our character will preform couple of tricks or breakdance moves.

But as the time passed we had only three days to capture group animation and still our own.  When the Stickfas animation process started we crossed everything out and left just the backflip. 

This was THE reference to our stop motion animation. Slow motion is the best thing ever! There was no need in breaking down movements. Although we actually faced many difficulties on the path. The Stickfas parts were breaking and falling apart. But the most annoying thing was securing a wire in one place with the character. This thing was falling all the time and misplacing. After hours of placing the figure and starting over again we managed to get the animation done.

The biggest mistake that has been made was placing the stickfas too close to the wall. Apart from that, maybe a bit more frames would have made the trick spectacular.

I've also tried to remove the wire but i was rather unsuccessful attempt.

As for the personal animation I've produced a qiuck walk cycle. Because I've rushed it, animation turned out quite akward and the figure looks like a maniac.

Things to improve: deffinately the arm movement ( add more motion to them) also couple of frames would do the trick.