An essential part of the module brief was to combine analogue and digital media. Throughout the workshop session I experimented with various digital softwares and approaches. The core medium for my project is stop motion which does combine digital and traditional media. However, I wanted to expand on this and take both the analogue and digital approaches further. For the digital side I will be exploring softwares such as Adobe After Effect and Premier Pro for editing the video. The way I want to introduce more analogue media into the video is by using paper cut outs for overlays and effects. I really like this more traditional animation style and think it will uniquely contrast the clean, cinematic visuals of the video.
Plan: below is my plan for the paper cut out animation, including the assets I want to make, how I’ll make them, where I’ll use them in the video and my artistic inspirations.
Artist references/ inspirations:
Chris Haughton:
Ollanski:
Natasza Center: guest lecturer who specialises in hand drawn animation
Style idea- my previous work: this is a piece I made as an exercise for my module ‘Sequence and Messaging’. I was experimenting with paper stop motion and this sort of cut outs is a style I want to use for the countdown and title. Also the sound effect used in this video is similar the style of audio I want to use in the video.
Paper cut out assets:
These are all the fire, smoke and countdown assets that I made. These took a long time to create as I wanted to be precise and detailed with each asset. I made 4 fire and 4 smoke sequences, each consisting of 10 assets. Each asset is made from 3 layers of colours.
The next step will be to photograph each asset and create the animated sequence.
Samuel Green Illustration 