TASK 1.B - Due 6th March 2015 - FRIDAY 1PM

Create an illustrated explanatory timeline of the history of animation.  You should provide: 

• A description of each technique, 
• Notable people related to the techniques,
• The advantages and disadvantages, 
• One analysed example for each technique.

It is essential for distinction criteria that you discuss the developments of these techniques through time. 

You must include: 

Techniques 

• Zoetrope
• Kinetiscope
• Flick Book
• Cel animation 
• Rotoscoping 
• Digital applications
• Claymation 

Animators:

• Walt Disney
• Hanna Barbera
• Norman McLaren
• Aardman Animations 

Create a PowerPoint and upload it onto your blog. 

TASK 1.a Due at 5PM 26TH Feb 2015

Create a 5 second Claymation with the title ‘the box’

• 25 frames per second for a 5 second animation. 
• You will create a box, using clay – you can either build the box and take pictures of the process or you can build the box and have it move/animate it.
• You will need – clay, tripod and a DSLR.
• Upload your animation onto Final Cut and export and upload onto your blog.

UNIT 33 STOP MOTION ANIMATION

Aim:

This unit aims to develop learners’ skills in the production of stop motion animation, using traditional frame- by-frame methods to animate 3D materials such as objects, puppets, clay figures and other models. 

Learning outcomes:

1. Understand the techniques and development of stop motion animation

1. Be able to devise a stop motion animation with soundtrack

1. Be able to produce a stop motion animation with soundtrack

1. Be able to evaluate audience responses to own stop motion animation work. 

Commissioned by: Aardman is famous for its Wallace and Gromit’s clay animations and they have asked that you create animations for their upcoming school initiative: ‘creative animation’.

Group Questions

Film or record the group

1. Identify your roles and how you contributed to the group
2. Did the presentation go well? discuss
3. How effective was filming? discuss
4. Did you meet your brief? state your brief
5. What could have been improved? technical? content? group contribution?