Week 3 - Brief Introduction

For the brief, you will be submitting 4 area's:

1.) Generating and Selecting Idea's

2.) Research and analysis of information, contextualisation and critical thinking

3.) Investigation, enquiry and visualisation

4.) Process/and or Concept Development

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Research:

• Research the twisted fairytales
• Research an appropriate story
• Research variety of treatment for stop-motion
• Research necessary tools and materials

Develop:

• Develop an appropriate treatment for your story
• Develop a colour scheme and script
• Develop characters
• Develop sets, and if necessary, a lighting scheme
• Develop a short storyboard of a sequence, making sure the quality of the work but more importantly functionally

Make:

• Make maquttes
• Make armatures, cut-outs, puppets costumes and models
• Make sets and design a lighting set

Test:

• Test animation of your characters
• Test your designs through test animation
• Test animate of the sets
• Test animate the storyline based on your short story board (no more than 20 second)

All the work must be on the blog. Your submission should include the final tests and a 500 word treatment of the work you have produced. All work is submitted on this blog electronically. 

Armature Research:

Making Armatures and Electrical blocks - Terminal electrical connector blocks are an affordable way of creating armatures to allow a good flow of connectivity for the model. 

Make sure the size that you pick can hold a wire, if the wire snaps with the electrical connector, all you will need to do is replace the wire rather than a whole part of the Armature.

You can strip the plastic away and end up with the core, which is a brass tubing with screws at either end allowing you to tighten the armature into place. Can use a core of millipede in the middle to design it to be more flexible. Furthermore, it can be more flexible to have replacement hands by using one end of the block going into the twisted wire above and the hand going into the twisted wire underneath. This would then be a legitimately flexible armature to allow you to replace parts in.

Tubes:

Aluminium tubings help with the armature, they are really easy to cut by marking off the elements you want to use and cut to size. These can be inserted with aluminium wire and then glued into place. There are a variety of different types of glues you can purchase, for example a two-part proxy glue and apply inside of the tube and insert the wire to allow it to set securely. A much more immediate process.

You can purchase them in brass and aluminium which allows for precessional productions and then fit the gauges into each other for a perfect fit. This would be the next step forward for when you are dealing with more complex armatures.

Task: Next week, resolution to the story. Development of the characters, Treatment - come to class with a character ready in mind and drawn.