Reviewing some of the experimantal stop motion viedos in class, we got all the inspiration we needed to create our own short. Oh, this was a group task as well. The project started off quite awkwardly, it was pretty hard to keep the thoughts together, because the head was exploding and you had no idea where to start from. Mindmaping did the trick. So the theme was all about dreams and nightmares. The thing that we all agreed on was that the animation is going to a cut out.
The story is about a boy who's sleeping and there's these monsters that crawl out of the bed to scare him. But instead the kid scares them, and they all happily faint. Then the planning process started! We've decided how many monster cut out there will be, what size, plus the main character, planned the room and camera angles.
An amazing early 2D short from genius - Tim Burton. This animation triggered the idea of monsters and Bogeyman. I really like the exaggerated expressions here. Character designes are just perfect! Not only that, but they also reflect their personalities.
There were some parts of the process that went not the way we planned it to, but it turned out to be quite an interesting animation. And yeah this was our first real stop motion animation.
There were a few things that could be changed, though. First of all, there is no such thing as "flat blanket"! Second, we probably should have added more frames, so that the monsters could move more smoothly.
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