One Punch Man stop motion study

Step 1 : sketch

i made a short video on a hedgehog parasite for uni! i HAD to get the sylvanians involved and had a wonderful time researching and filming it

every view/like/comment on yt is appreciated as im trying to play mind games on my lecturer for a high grade

Been down with some fever while also cutting down on social media time, so I created this in my free time!

So proud of it!

I really need to get back to work soon :’)

A morning story, frame by frame.

Ooops.. having fun with mistakes anyway .. xD embrace your quirkiness and just go with it.. you never know ^^

Week 1: Secondary Research & my Idea.

These are some of the different artists I was looking at during the week.

This is Stuart Blackton, the first person to use pixilation and the creator of the "the enchanted mirror". He would "interact" with the drawing, even "removing" parts of the drawing and making them "reappear" as real objects, and would make the face "react". He would stop the recording, make his changes, and continue as before.

This here is Windsor McCay, american cartoonist who created "Gertie the dinosaur", the earliest cartoon to ever feature a dinosaur. This was also the first film to ever use Keyframes, Registration marks, Tracing paper, Animation loops, and Mutoscope action viewer. He would similarly interact with the animation, "throwing" an apple onto the screen and pocketing it when no one looked while an "apple" would appear on the screen, or he would walk behind the stage and "reappear" on screen and ride Gertie.

Georges meileis "trip to the moon (1902)", the first film to use Double exposure, Stop motion, and Slow motion. He was a illusionist film maker and a magician. The film took 3 months to make and was filmed in a greenhouse like building to get as much light as possible.

"Loving Vincent" directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, the worlds first fully painted film with over 65,000 frames. The they would record the actors dressed as their characters , and would use a projector to project the frames from the video onto the canvases and the animators would paint each frame in Van Gogh's art style.

I briefly looked at Jan Svankmajers "Darkness light Darkness", its a very peculiar piece of media, and it is a 7 minute clay stop motion animation. Its just a body reconstructing itself in a miniature house and figuring out where everything goes.

How does this relate to my project?

Well my idea is to create a mixed media short film based in a haunted art gallery/museum ( some place with a lot of artwork) with a security guard monitoring the building and the strange occurrences within its walls. The main focus will be the different security cameras, which will be changing perspectives a lot, and even the p.o.v of the guard. The centerpiece will be an an animation of a portrait crawling out of the frame, but the first part of the animation will be painted like in "Loving Vincent", but as the creature begins to leave the frame it transforms into stop motion animation with clay. I was thinking that since the creature is made of paint it would make a wet sound when it moves, which is where I want to incorporate foley sound, and leave traces of itself around the building. In the background I want to create other spooky visuals like other paintings distorting or objects from paintings disapearing and showing up in the wrong places like in "The enchanted mirror". I want to experiment with different Camera trick to create different visuals and create suspense like the dutch tilt. I want to slowly unnerve the viewer, using different visual affects and changes in each camera.

There's a lot of work to be done and I'm looking forward to see how I'll incorporate the different workshops into it too

Y'know I think I'm starting to truly understand the kids who just didn't do anything in class during middle and high school. As someone who used to be a gifted kid and never really got it. Fucking hell

I love Orel making friends with other kids from Crossovers

"I think the confusion here is that you are all very ignorant. Is that the right word, ignorant? I mean stupid, primitive, unenlightened. You do not understand science, so you are afraid of it. Like a dog is afraid of thunder or balloons.To you, science is magic and witchcraft because you have such small minds. I cannot make your heads bigger, but your children's heads, I can take them and crack them open. This is what I try to do, to get at their brains."

🎞Frankenweenie

ISLE OF THE DOGS fanart :)

I have no idea why but I had honestly never heard of this film till 5 days ago but you guys should go check it out! It’s a weird dystopia about people in Japan not liking dogs? Look it is a really weird film but I would recommend because it also is about the role of the youth in politics and how we should listen to children.

That’s where Tracy and Atari come in and I love them! They’re such a good characters!

Conclusion: if you like WesAnderson, Dogs or StopMotion Animation watch this film from 2018

One Punch Man stop motion study

Step 2 : Inking

The process of stopmotion puppet part 1 :Hilal 🌙

I started to take stopmotion puppet class this semester and my project for this class is "Hilal the star collecting fox"! This is not a tutorial to be honest... Its more like a documentation of my process

I started with character design! I usually find myself making complicated designs bc its kinda my habit and since its my first time making stop motion puppet i wanted to make a simple design to make it easier for myself

Then i tried to make a prototype head to see if i can sculpt the head the way i wanted it and to my big suprise (since its my first time doing something like this) IT WORKED!!!

After that i did the armature with wires and some air dry clay. Most of my classmates stucked at this step bc of their different material choices :/

Then i did the head again (i dont have pic of it tho) and made the body shape with old sponge that i found in the house

To make it all come together i wraped everything up with some foam wrap aand tadaa!!

BIBLE GENESIS 1:29 -

God said, "I give you every seed- bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

WIP

01|05|22| My Experience with Teamwork

So far this semister, Ive had two strong experiences with working in a team on a project.

I worked as a director, voice actor,and Editor on the stop motion fruit project

As well as working as an Actor in the pixilation workshop project

Both of these experiences couldnt have been more different when it comes to how I contributed to the team.

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Fruit project

I like being a director or at least a writer on a project, its where I feel most in my element because no matter what, Ill always have some dumb idea I wanna impliment. So in the Fruit project, I was the sort of glue bringing things together and making sure its a serviceable product. It was a fun expereince despite being a bit nerve wracking considering it was the first time I had met my teammates.

My only comments on that experience might be that I'm disappointed in myself for not being able to look people in the eyes in the project. I've never been able to look people in the eyes as I suffer from aspergers, but when youre team leader.. you really need to connect with who youre working with. Because if im not connecting with people then its gonna affect the experience for everyone else.

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Pixilation project

For this project, I found myself in the role of an actor which is the complete opposite of something i'd like to do. That in effect made it a more cementing experience in my opinion.

It felt strange to not be too heavily involved in the creative process because thats what I'm good at. But being an actor was surprisingly a better expereince than I thought. I took orders and did the best I could to be as facilitating to the vision of the director and camera operative. It took a bit of time to get used to but as soon as I saw how talanted the people I was working with, I knew they didnt need my help beyond acting as they were fantastic and more than capable.

In reflection, I found the expereince enlighening and it showed me I could take part in a project and NOT be the one behind the camera for once.

Specialist Animation Studies (SAS): Statement of Intent - Powerpoint Presentation