Nuca animation

At Norwich University College of the Arts we made this metamorphosis animation. First we were given a word and we had to draw that word, my object was an eye. Then we all rotated our pictures and let the person next to us copy them, i then got an apple. We then had our start and finish pictures. We used layout paper so we were able to see through the page, we placed our start and finish pictures on top of each other (using a peg bar to keep them in place) and drew a 'middle frame' which would be halfway in between the eye becoming the apple. After that we then had to draw the other frames, for this we placed our first picture on the peg bar and moved it a little bit towards the middle frame. We created lots of these until the first picture had become the last picture. After we had drawn all of the frames we went over them in pen so they stood out more. We then used a rostrum camera to take two pictures of each picture, we shot them in twos to make the film last longer. Because we had all used each others pictures and a 'finish' we could then morph the first picture all the way back round to the same picture again.

After that we made a zoetrope animation. We got a strip of 18 rectangles for us to draw in to create an animation. We were told that we had to create a simple design, we used the same technique of tracing over the original drawing but moving it slightly to create the illusion of movement. The design had to be simple because if it wasn't it would of been hard to draw the same thing each time. The first and the last frame had to be the same so that when the zoetrope was spinning it played the animation over and over again without a jump in the middle where the start and end frames were different. To make the movement clearer some people coloured them in so it stood out more, we also outlined it all in pen so that it was clearer.

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