My LATE work of Order to Chaos

Sorry I'm so late on this, I've been swamped with working on the next assignment with the SyFy commercial. Anyway I had fun with the assignment and I feel it was creative and interesting. I took some reference videos of the animal I choose which was Squirrels. Their tails had the most movement so I focused on their tail function in my animation. I wanted to also give the background a forest type of feels so I used a light blue and green paper but not give too much focus on it. I also wanted a unique way of making the items fall to give a chaotic feel to them. I used button to create the body, starburst wrappers for his arms and ear, and yarn for the tail while having woodchips represent the tree for the squirrel to stand on. I also added clouds with having crushed up tissue for background.

 

This is a video example I used to create the Squirrel.

I made a little accident and put the word "THE END" in the credits which Mr. Hopen didn't like. I also should have given more of a action and reaction when I set up the anticipation. I also had a little trouble with the audio since I didn't know that garage band would glitch out on me. My fault though, should have checked it before I set the music in. I added sound effects to the piece of squirrel sounds and birds chirping to make it more natural that you looking at a squirrel, not an object. The tail had the most movement since it has the most focus out of the squirrel. The video could use some work but I enjoyed the final result of the squirrel.

The final result of my work with Chaos to Order.

Sun-Rype Stop Motion TV Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABzP397GB6s&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
I found this amazing video commercial on youtube which uses Stop Motion animation with circles of fruit to bring something that would seem chaotic to make it into order. The music is also fun and catchy while working well with the animation. This is something I hope to do in the near future and am going to attempt on my free time. The add had multiple videos which showed amazing Stop Motion and lets your mind create the action of what the product demonstrates. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-NIM6rT7VQ&feature=related

Process

It was a lot of hard work creating all of the balls again and again to make them consistent. I've never drawn a bouncing ball cycle before but that's what made it more difficult. I went to the Ringling Art Store to buy some animation paper and templates for my squash and stretch. I also needed to hole punch all of the paper and go through multiple roughs for how I wanted the ball to squish and the timing of the bounces. I've been coming to the animation lab for multiple days now just to get what I wanted with the cycles being correct and having enough frames to measure up to what I wanted.

I've been tracing the sketches before I create them sometimes and used resource material from the internet to sometimes know how each ball moves differently. I've also talked with Mr. Ed Cheetham and he talked with me on how the process goes and gave me interesting ideas on how to make it believable. His advice really helped and made it easier to understand what my ball bounce needed. 

The final element I added was sound since I wanted to make the animations more interesting and more unique.
I wanted to have a little fun with the animation and this project was kind of fun but it cost a LOT of time and 
even MORE paper to use.