Animation

Posted on 14/09/2013 Updated on 13/01/2015

For my first rotation, me and a few friends have to work together to create an animation. We can make anything and do anything to go into this animation; we started with a brainstorm and came up with ideas that interested us all. After the brainstorm we came to an agreement to start off with a card trick. We didn’t really have any plan on what to do or which direction the animation would go. So we decided to look at a few animations created by PES, who are a group of people that have created animations for tv and also for their own pleasure. After looking at PES’s work, we had a better idea of what can be done in an animation and came up with a fuller plan than we started out with.

Now that we had a better idea of what we could do, we decided to look at a bit of ‘smudge and click’ animation; this is where you draw out the animation but leave behind a trail of where the animation has been. We started off the animation with a simple ‘pick a card’ card trick, then when the volunteer went to place the card back, the deck would move; this then lead to the whole deck traveling from a 3 dimensional to 2 dimensional form and becoming ‘smudge and click’. We didn’t realise how long it would take to do the ‘smudge and click’ which meant that we had to wait to the next day to continue.

When we came back to finish the animation, we realised that we didn’t need to do more ‘smudge and click’ and that we could go back to the stop motion.  After having the time to think, we decided to move the drawing back into 3D by turning it into origami, then have that origami run around on the floor which would then return to the magician. After returning, the magician would pick up the origami, retrieve the deck of cards and complete the trick.

Below is the animation that was created for this project, I hope you enjoy it.