Thursday evening during our lecture, myself and my class mates gathered together to build our own paper animation. This was done to help build our understanding of animation and storyboard building, understanding how scenes work through each other to create that final animation piece.
Rob’s Test
During the start of the class, we were each given a piece of paper to individually asses ourselves on what position we personally feel we take when working in a group. The test was then discussed between us in groups of 3 and each of us got to express what decisions we toke and why we felt like we put ourselves in that box.
We watched a video were each person played a part, we then ticked in the boxes shown in the test whether that position best fit with ourselves, if yes, or if not. Further questions were done to see how we could personally improve in some skills we have, how those skills can be taken further and why there improtant, other questions as to what we dislike and why, how do these dislikes effect others or yourself, how they can be damaging in a work place or environment and what can be done to improve.
Group Animation “The Hungry Caterpillar”
The first figure demonstrates how we all gathered together to individually work on our paper animations. These paper animations would later help us when coming to create our own animations and give ourselves further examples on how scenes should set out to come together. Paper sticky notes were used to create individual animations.
Given by the test we previously did, each person was given a role to play in their animation, as we all had one large animation to build together whilst doing our own. We were instructed to recreate our own version of the “Hungry Caterpillar” on paper, and have the caterpillar demonstrate going through a hole in a object we chose. I chose a Lettuce. Our leader through this task was Abbie, who was set to present and organise the group animation as shown in the figure.
Our final result of the group animation can be seen in the figure above, showing everyones chosen object as to what the caterpillar may be going through, how the animation fits together and should build up to. As this is not a proper animation, this was to see and show how it would look if all of our small and short paper aniamtions would look if they were all put together to build one large animation.
My paper animation
The video demonstrates my own paper animation, quite a challenging task I would personally say, the paper eventually got bent so much it started falling apart because I had tested to see if my animation had worked that many times. Eventually I managed to keep it together long enough to build a rough idea of my short paper animation, which will later help me build my final animation, in terms of scene changing and transitions.