Stop Motion Project 1: Final Video

"Communitree College"

So this is it! Our final stop motion video. All-in-all, I feel like we did an awesome job. The project was a hefty workload but incredibly rewarding and fun to create. I thoroughly enjoyed creating the sets and adding little details and such (like caution signs and putting our names on some of the posters). The animating was very tedious, as was expected, and was my least favorite part of the project but it was well worth it. Going back and doing scenes or takes over was slightly aggravating (I just like to get things done!) but we did it anyway because we really wanted our stop motion to be the best work we could create. 

Stop Motion Project 1 Presentation

Stop Motion 1 Project: Update 10/11

We started and finished filming the Woodshop scene along with the opening title sequence of the polaroids and the end credits. The lag on the computer in Studio B while using DragonFrame was lengthening the time it took to do simple movements which was rather frustrating.

We then went on to the editing process and, while we had most of our sounds picked out, there were a couple that we didn't think about. We asked a couple of people in studio to chant "Chug, chug, chug" fr the opening sequence which worked out really well.

Stop Motion Project 1: Update 6/10

We finished up all of the sets and were able to film the hallway scene and the bar scene.

The beer cans on the bar table proved difficult to keep in the same place at times and required a steady hand to continue to put them back in the same position.

Wood Shop in Progress

Hallway in Progess

Filming Hallway Scene

Wood Shop in Progress

Wood Shop in Progress

Bar in Progress

Jessica

Annie

Jessica & I

Stop Motion Project 1: Update 6/9

Today we worked on the singular elements of the bar while Jessica worked on the 2D animatic and I finished the characters.

Annie and I then worked on the movement tests for our main character. We initially wanted to go with a sort of hopping or bouncing for Karl's movement but that proved far too time consuming for the amount of time we were given for this task. We ended up with a waddle that was a lot easier to animate.

Main Character (Karl)

Professor Oak (feat. removable apron!)

Professor Oak

Movement Test 1

Movement Test 2

Stop Motion Project 1: Update 6/8

So far we have created the rough base models for the main character and the tree professor. I bought some dolls from the dollar store that were admittedly very cheap and didn't come with a whole lot of hair or a nice outfit. So I put the hair in a nice bun at the top and created a simple polka dot dress for her as well. Now she looks more like a college student and less like a fairy princess!

Annie and Jessica both worked on finding sounds and putting the stop motion together. Jessica also worked on the bar scene.

Stop Motion Project 1

Notes and Plans

We were tasked on Wednesday (6/5) to come up with an idea for a stop motion that involved the theme of nature. So, naturally, our idea involves a tree going to college (a college of both humans and trees alike). He gets drunk one night while he's out partying and oversleeps the next day and is late for class. He's in such a flurry and is still hungover, that 

he mistakenly goes into the wood shop where he then faints. The professor in the wood shop then uses the student tree's body for extra wood as he puts him through the wood chipper. 

Character Concept Sketch

Progress as of 6/7

storyboards

storyboard creation

measuring out the size of the tree

interchangeable eyes made by me

Annie looking up sound effects