Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Stop Motion Animation of Falling






Click on the image above to see my stop motion animation.


I had a super wide format for this video but when I exported it, it squished the side therefore it is currently in bad quality. Basically my idea was to make myself like Angry Bird the game and shot myself as the bullet for the slingshot towards the ball and make it fall. First, I took pictures of a ball I had at home on a white piece of paper. I set my camera to use flash and shot the ball. The flash took away the shadow so it was easy to use to wand and laso tool in photoshop to crop the ball out. I then set up the ball so that it sat on a green box to make it a platform for the ball to sit on. Then, I took some reference of a ball falling but all I had was just a boring scene of a ball dropping when it was pushed away. However, I somehow stumbled upon Angry bird when I was looking through my apps and use the idea for a stop motion Angry Dang (the title sounded too cliche so I changed it to Angry Ball at the end which makes no sense). The video compressed above is a squished from the sides because I was using size 68X17 inches to make it a wide format. Little did I know the size were too big and it lagged my laptop when I tried to export it.
These are the plannings. I also took a picture of myself as the bullet for the slingshot. Then I decided to paint a background similar to Angry Bird Style but with my own designs and color choices. 



After many tries to compress my images. I have to change to 720X180 pixels in the Gif option and now it works. 

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