New ideas

My idea from the previous posts has now changed as I wasnt happy with my old idea but i felt it wasn't very interesting and wasn't motivated to do it. Therefore I've changed the story so it's more like a traditional fairy tale like Aladdin but with one of the necklaces from the Pitt rivers museum. I've storyboarded it all and now am creating using a stop motion technique and puppets made from black card.

Pop-up tree animation

This is a collaborative project that was inspired by The Ice Book pop-up. Here is a video of the experiment with this idea. Our plan now is to make a slightly bigger one and adjust the animation so there isn't actually a projection of the tree as well as the pop-up.

Emma van Leest

Emma van Leest

This is a paper-cutting artist from Australia whose work is very impressive, with very detailed intricate designs. She has also been part of an animation project using paper cut outs, similar to my project.

Characters

I've now began to create some other characters for the story and also cut them out of black card. This time however, instead of using pins to join them together, I've used blu tack which is much easier to move and keeps the figure much flatter.

Lion silhouette

I chosen to animate an African story about a necklace that protects the wearer from lions. So to begin with, I've cut out a lion silhouette into different segments so that I can move it and try to animate it.

The Art of Lotte Reiniger

This is a video that explains how Lotte Reiniger created her animations using black cardboard cut outs and taking photos every time they were moved slightly. It's quite an easy technique but very time consuming and probably difficult to get it to appear to move smoothly and realistically. It would be good to try out this technique myself using a light box and a very simple figure.

The Small Red Feather

Herre is another short story about a magical bird with feathers that could be turned into food. The story is very simple but very possible to create an animation for.

The Small Red Feather