Cut out animation Evaluation

The process of cut out animation is to first, locate a magazine or a newspaper and then cut out the images you'd like to use in your animation. Then you'd need to create a storyboard to have a clear view of what your animation is going to look like and so that you wouldn't forget anything. After that you are free to start organizing your images and taking pictures of them to create a fluid animation. The program we used for this project was iStopMotion, it's a very helpful tool and it's a great benefit to those who enjoy making stop motion videos.
The famous pioneers of stop motion editing are Terry Gilliam and Lotte Reiniger. Terry Gilliam was one of the main animators/directors for Monty Python which was extremely popular back in the day.
Lotte Reiniger was one of the first people to start stop motion animation. Her most known work is 'Jack and the Beanstalk' which featured amazingly fluid animation.
The positive thing about stop motion animation is that you don't have to be good at drawing to do it, practically anyone could pick up a pair of scissors, cut out some images and animate them. But it takes patience and care to make your animation look great. The negative thing about stop motion animation is that it's a very tedious process, it takes a long time to make your animation look good, you gotta move your images bit by bit and take pictures in-between, it requires a lot of patience just to not quit in the middle.
Overall, I think our animation turned out great, as it managed to rack up a whopping 48,000 views on a particular website named 'Funnyjunk' and then an additional 800 on Youtube. Judging by the comments most people seemed to enjoy it. The whole process of creating an animation was really fun since everyone was coming up with funny ideas which made our animation turn out as good as it has.

Cut out animation

Motions

Eadwaerd Muybridge is an English photographer known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion. 

Eadwaerd had a very interesting life filled with some astounding moments. He has once committed a murder, invented stop motion animation, had a son, changed his name a lot of times and a lot more. Even after death he's influenced a ton of people, one of them including the great Thomas Edison. He also had an exhibition dedicated to him at the Tote Britain.

In later studies Muybridge used a series of large cameras that used glass plates placed in a line, each one being triggered by a thread as the horse passed. Later a clockwork device was used. The images were copied in the form of silhouettes onto a disc and viewed in a machine called a Zoopraxiscope.

We recreated his stop motion technique by setting off computers one by one as soon as one person went past it.

We had 6 computers and 6 people to capture an image and as soon as the person walking was in the middle of the frame we took a picture, we then compiled all the pictures on one computer and inserted them onto an online website which had turned our pictures into a moving gif.

Sky ident

Sky Ident on Prezi

Zoetrope

Well it’s a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures.


It consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. Beneath the slits, on the inner surface of the cylinder, is a band which has either individual frames from a video/film or images from a set of sequenced drawings or photographs.


As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures on the opposite side of the cylinder's interior. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together, so that the user sees a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, the equivalent of a motion picture.


The advantage of a zoetrope is that you could easily create an animation without the use of any expensive software and its extremely cheap and simple, so all you require is a decent artistic skill.


The disadvantage is that you can only create short animations with a length of about 1 second that constantly repeats, you can't make long and meaningful ones.

Zoetrope

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