My part:
I recently helped out a group on a stop motion animation in class, I helped them come up with a solid concept/idea, made story boards, and helped them turn it into an animation. I was gone for most of the time that they filmed due to health issues. but I was able to help the group out when they needed me. That included creating the video which included helping set up the camera shots and moving the "models" into the correct positions between frames and helped them with editing the final video. The finished animation is down below.The process:
Our group started out by researching stop motion animations online to try and get an idea started. We came across a video where they mixed a live action with stop motion animation. Next we went through different ideas and stories to use. We started narrowing down which idea seemed the best and then started creating story boards to plan out exactly what we were going to film.
Shooting:
Next we went out to find places to shoot for the stop motion the first place we chose we could only have access for an hour of our time. We ended up going to film in a different location that we could use for both hours to make good use of our time. Using the story boards we set up our actors and started shooting each frame by using a crane that we were able to borrow from the video department.
Editing:
After we were done filming all of the frames for the stop motion we brought it back to the class room and started putting all the frames together into after effects. We then began the editing process which included mixing the live action with the stop motion frames, doing color correction, adding sound effects, and then rendering it all out for our final video.
