Collaboration – Week Two

Monday

This week we were in the animation rooms. We were working with Film strips that were about 10 seconds long each. We took these Strips and started to essentially mess with the footage with paint and pens as well as just cutting into the film.
It was fun experimenting with ideas and seeing actual film other than what you’d see on TV Paint or Flash/Adobe Animate.

 

 

After we all finished messing with the Film Tom clipped them all together and we managed to see our outcomes.

 

During this project i found it interesting to seeing physical film and just looking through all the frames individually and seeing how they were able to create movement.
Also being able to see the film and noticing the paint used will always come out as black while pens or pencils would have a hint on colour changing the film.

Tuesday  

So today we have to take the films we made and put them on TV Paint. We then had to animate on top of the already existing scratch film. This for me was a fun exercise back into animating again.
i decided to use the colours Yellow and blue since both colours within the animation dont get  overshadowed with the background.
I thought if i should link my animation to what i was seeing within the already existing animation, but i decided against that because i wouldn’t have been able to fully be creative with my animation which i am glad i stuck with.

So now i managed to create 2 different animations that are able to work side by side each other to show 2 different animation styles as well as showing 2 different stories.

What i thought?

As much as i did enjoy animating and being able to learn how film strips were used i found the collaborative element to be very lacking. The only collaborative moments i could recall was that the animation students were asked by the fine artists how to animate, while this was fun trying to help out some students to teach them how timing and spacing works and how to use paint tool sai. Id rebuttal this by saying that it never felt like the fine artist taught us animators anything during this task. which really felt one sided and didn’t feel like we somewhat collaborated but more like looked after the fine artists while they tried to animate.