Claymation practice...

So, I have the 'i can animate' iphone app, and now I have some play doh, so whats my excuse.... ITS SO HARD! surprisingly knowing when to click to take the photo.

But anyway I attempted anyway! I made two that looked remotely decent.. 

Scrap That.. back to idea one..

so after presenting my story board it became clear that my story board and ideas were to literal, and the adaptation i though of was quite frankly boring... so, what if i went back to the VERY FIRST idea, people dancing? literal again, right? Wrong! im going to use my childish side again, and use play dough!! 

i want two characters to interact, and well dance to the music..

so i did a youtube search, found a couple of videos but i liked the way there claymation characters interacted.

To the shops for play dough!

Record Players...

looking at pictures of record players was important as i needed to ensure that i could use each part to interact with eachother.. now i just have to decide if i want to use a digital photo of a record player or i use a hand drawn one?

Tweaking...

tweaking the idea!!

Getting there..

After talking through my story board idea, my thoughts that the most important parts of my animation were too short, so im going to adapt my storyboard and change the idea from drawing and orchestra to a simple record player, which notes will come out of and then turn into sound waves for the idea shown on the story board to continue.

Heres a quick animation video that i made to see how the record player would look, with a moving record and interactive hand.. im pretty happy with this(despite the notes looking a bit dodgy) 

Story Board

I will use the music from 01.14.00 as this is where it fits best for the instruments that have been drawn on the page.

Drawings!

Developing the idea in my head before i story board, i decided i needed to attempt drawing parts of the animation (hopefully if my idea goes to plan these wont have to move themselves soooo it should be fairly simple to add these in...

Quick test, before storyboarding

Doing this has made me realise that i need a lot more content than id originally first thought, this is 3 seconds and originally i was going to have the  drawn hands and then have them move but no sound appear, then i was going to add elements to the drawing which made it make sound and then this would be represented by lines on the screen. 

This also made me realise that i need to have someone else taking the photo with the camera on a tripod or something that wont move so the only thing that is moving is the hand and the drawing not the paper. 

Orchestra animation research..

Back to good old youtube to search for some orchestra and music animations...

heres a few..

 FAR TO COMPLICATED FOR ME TO DO SURELY?

MUSIC PAINTING - Glocal Sound - Matteo Negrin

i like this one a lot, its very similar to an idea i have, and similar it the VW advert i showed earlier, which was mostly what inspired me...

WHY INK?

I thought i'd quickly just verify why id decided to use ink and a paintbrush in the previous sketches... (now ill go back to the pen and pencil.. i think) but its simply because it flows so helped my drawings from to the music and i when the ink got a bit dry it gave a different effect (which in a way is the effect of the music on the ink.. kinda)

part two...

I then decided to make my hand flow to the music and try and represent the sound through lines, almost like sound waves.. this gave me a better understanding of the flow of the tune, and then when this combined with the sketches of the conductors hands gave me another idea ...

Doodling while listening..

I decided it would be a good idea to get some doodles drawn whilst listening to the song.. this took my mind away from the idea of people dancing and back to the idea of an orchestra, as the song was playing i doodled a picture of the conductors hands, and some musical not (i know its a pretty bad drawing but i made mt hand flow to the tune) 

more idea branching...

ok, so another idea was along the lines of an orchestra, this is one of my preferred ideas, as i think the tempo of the song fits quite well.. however the element of a drawn animation is still in my head... maybe i could do an animation ot a imagine being drawn at the pace of the the song?

Idea's Branching out

...Because one of my ideas involved men wearing top hats, i though id have a crack at trying to draw some, i used ink and a paintbrush to give it a sketched quick effect.. I am fairly happy with these guys, but it has made me realised it might be quite difficult to animate them.

Quick Mind map..

The Third Man Theme

So, heres the song... its about 45 seconds in where my idea of dancing come in to it.. however from listening to it over and over more and more ideas have come into my head.. so i just need to control these and decide on a final idea to story board...