My Animation

Magic Makeover

This is my final edit of my animation, with titles, credits, audio and sound effects.
The girl who stars in my animation is my 10 year old cousin Ellise. During the production, I was the one who did her hair, her make-ip and nail vanish for the video. We capture the animaion in my bedroom, and used my own clothes for the animation. I wasnt too diffcult to make it look like her outfits were changing when she clicked her fingers, but what I did have to make sure, was that she was stood in the exact same place. I think that I did it well and manged to make it look okay.

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After I created my animation on monkey jam, I then exported it to a movie file. I then opened the movie file in Windows Movie Maker, and this is where I added the title and credits, and the sound and audio. To add the video I clicked on 'import video' on the left hand side of the window, then found the movie film of my animation that I made on Monkey Jam. I added the video onto the timeline, and then added a title and credit sequence. To do that, I clicked on the add 'title and credits' button which is also on the left hand side. I then choose the font, the colours and the layout of them both.

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To create my animation, i used a software called Monkey Jam. Monkey Jam is really easy to use. All that you have to do is set up and open the webcam, open a new layer, and take a photograph for each frame. On Monkey Jam, you can change the frame rate, which effects how fast it plays the images after one another. To set up and new layer on Monkey Jam, all that you have to do is click on the first little icon on the tool bar cross the top of the program window; the one that looks like a blank piece of paper with a little star on the corner of it. To open the camera you have to click on the seventh icon, the one that looks like a little orange cartoon camera. Then once you have that window open, you are able set how many frames thaeach picture with be. This then determins how fast are slow your animation will be. For my animation I took over 400 photographs, at 1 image per 2 frames, to create my 30 second animation. If you were to take an imdividual image for each frame, and set it up well enough, then the aniamtion will turn out smooth and possible like a video recording.

 

Once I had finished taking photograhps to put my animation together, I then had to save and export in into a movie file, so I would then be able to add on sound, titles and credits. To save and export it, you have to click on file, and then export. It's that simple.

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So as I have changed my idea for my final project from doing a cut-out animation to a pixelation animation, I have to come up with another idea. From doing some more research I found this video on Youtube...

      

This is a pixelation, and from this i got my new idea, which is called 'Magic Makeover'.
Its going to be about a girl getting ready, but instantly; like magic. I plan to use a software called money jam, as it is a software made to create pixelation animation.

Ive taken photographs frame by frame and monkey jam puts the images together, creating the animation.

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After looking at the stage it got to, and the amount of time it took me just to do that short clip, and being aware that the difficulty of managing to get each of the words to flow nicely and to fit audio will be really hard; so from all of that, Ive decided to change my idea. This is because what I am wanting my animation to look like, by the professional standard and the flow of the whole video, I dont think that I will manage to get it done it time.

So this means that I have to come up with a new idea.

During the research that I carried out a few weeks ago, I found that pixelation is much quicker, and if it is done right, it looks really good. So I am planning on changing my animation from being cut-out to pixelation.