Final animation...

This is my final animation, i am happy with the outcome but if i was to do this again or if i had more time, i would have introduced colour. I also would have gone into more detail. However i am pleased with my animation and i feel that it has turned out well.

Frames...

As i wanted to use cell animation for my final piece i had to draw each frame individually to show the narrative. Here are the main frames of the animation...

Frame 001:

Frame 016:

Frame 035:

Frame 069:

Frame 080:

Frame 093:

Frame 113:

Frame 143:

Frame 171:

Research

Before starting each frame for my animation i wanted to research different kinds of flowers and birds, i looked at images on the internet.



Flip books...

I decided to experiment with flip books and created one of my own, i think that these are really simple but effective ways of showing animation.

 

Animation...

Now i know what the story for my animation is going to be, i wanted to find a little bit more about animation and look at every possible way of how i could present my story. I looked at the definition of animation, cell animation, stop motion and flip books, which are:

'Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways. The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although there are other methods. Film is projected at 24 frames per second.'

'Cell Animation -  Traditional animation (also called cel animation or hand-drawn animation) was the process used for most animated films of the 20th century. The individual frames of a traditionally animated film are photographs of drawings, which are first drawn on paper. To create the illusion of movement, each drawing differs slightly from the one before it. The animators' drawings are traced or photocopied onto transparent acetate sheets called cels, which are filled in with paints in assigned colors or tones on the side opposite the line drawings. The completed character cels are photographed one-by-one onto motion picture film against a painted background by a rostrum camera.'


'Stop-motion animation is used to describe animation created by physically manipulating real-world objects and photographing them one frame of film at a time to create the illusion of movement. There are many different types of stop-motion animation, usually named after the type of media used to create the animation. Computer software is widely available to create this type of animation.'

'A flip book (sometimes, especially in British English, called a flick book) is a book with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page to the next, so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change. Flip books are often illustrated books for children, but may also be geared towards adults and employ a series of photographs rather than drawings. Flip books are not always separate books, but may appear as an added feature in ordinary books or magazines, often in the page corners. Software packages and websites are also available that convert digital video files into custom-made flip books.'

My final storyboard...

My final idea:

 I decided to do my final animation of a bird flying, as i had already experimented with this in the cell animation workshops and i had done birds flying in my flick books. I thought it would be effective to show the bird flying through a meadow full of flowers, and as the bird flies over them the flowers begin to blossom. It starts of by the bird flying onto a tree branch and then follows it as it flies over the flowers. It then finishes sitting back onto the tree branch.

Beginning:

 

MIddle:

End:



Cell animation...

The cell animation workshop was the first experience i had ever had with it, on the first workshop we had to come up with a character, my idea was to have a bird i liked the idea of having it to fly accross the page. We then had to partner up with somebody else and create a 2-3 second animation with both characters. Here is the start, middle and end of our aimation...

My character which is the bird flies accross the page while the second character watches it, and waves as the bird leaves the page.

This is the end result of our animation: