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...