for our first task we were looking at transformation and the metamorphosis of shapes and what displacement and replacement animation. our first stop motion animation was looking how we could transform one shape into another using an interesting transformation transition. I thought I was a good way into warming up into the technique since we would need to visualise how our shapes would transform into the other in paper form.
we realised that if were to look at movement and transformation we wouldn’t really be able to focus on character or having a scene since we wanted to focus more on the shape which was why our outcome was really reduce to the essentials to also leave room for interpretation based on the sound as well.
Well during my two weeks I had on stop motion, I thought I was the most knowledgeable on this technique compared to the other two but since we looked at creating the stop motion made from paper I think it really stripped it down to what was really needed to be shown which made me get out of my comfort zone of how I would normally approach stop motion, which is hand drawn from a overhead angle. Since we were looking to explore movement and transformation it would mean that our work would look more abstract in turn to focus on the metamorphosis of the shapes. I felt that it was more spontaneous when working more abstract since there isn’t really a storyboard behind the work and we were basing our work on the sound we chose and how it would translate into movement.
For my 5 seconds contribution to the animation sequence I had somewhat of a plan since as group we decided that because our sound was like water we would base it around like a park scene and for my section I tried to make shapes transform into another with interesting transformation and used quite a bit of both replacement and displacement animation. I was trying to replicate a bench shape with the rectangles which then transformed into the tree which I thought turned out quite well with how the rectangle shape went from hard edges to a circle to then being a tree. But I do want to improve it by changing the way the tree moved out of the shot since our backdrop wasn’t completely black and if it were it would’ve looked like it floated out and worked with the theme of how the shapes were sort of floating in this space. Our feedback for our final 20sec animation were that it was reduce to the essentials which in our case I think worked well as we aren’t completely telling what is truly happening in the animation, and might try adding a mirror to the backdrop to see how that might affect our animation and the outcome it might have. Overall I learnt more than I expected for stop motion especially about how movement in stop motion but animation in general is essential and how sound would translate into those movements , in the future project I would like to carry forward that spontaneous movement created from the different ways to transform one shape into another.