30xFrames

Here are the four sets of 30xframes for the four final videos. Along the bottom of each frame is a time line which indicates the frame number.

One




Two




Three



Four

The Final Four

Number One

Number Two

Number Three

Number Four

The Other Finals

A

B

C

D

The final version of Video Seven and the initial storyboard.

Final Version of video six.

Here the coming together click was far too fast, and didn't look natural and so I tried slowing it down. (see below)





After this I changed the end so that it looks like the word is clicking into shape.

Click Five

Test out's on how to create a hand drawn click using stop motion and the story boards for the animation.

To rectify this I made the "I" click and bring all the letters back to their start position.

Click Five - a

This animation deals with the idea of words clicking and being replaced,
until the end where the idea returns to letters clicking and reacting. Here
are the first two clicks.

I couldn't work out why I disliked the ending of this so much, but now I
realise it's because the last transformation lasts too long and doesn't keep
with the pace of the rest of it.

Click Four

The amended version.

Possible Animation

This version is what I had planned on my storyboard but now that I've seen it it just doesn't seem right. So I've meddled with it a bit and changed the way it ends.

Testing distance.

A test into how to make the word come towards the screen, rather than converting it to a 3D shape. This attempt uses just scale.

I wanted to be able to change the anchor point between different transitions but just a direct change and not a gradual one. I couldn't find a way of doing it and instead ended up with this.

I considered moving the anchor point to the middle of the word but it looks more like a squeeze than a click.

Finally worked out how to get the word to move forward, it was pretty simple. I just needed to increase the scale and change the position.

Testing how to click...

Here I cut the letters in two and hoped to compress them effectively, however it just looked as though it was being warped.

This time I altered just the vertical height and moved the anchor point to the bottom of the letters.

The anchor point was moved underneath the word for this attempt. I'm not sure whether I've imagined an improvement or if it is there but this is the click I have decided to carry on with.

Click Three

This animation tests out how a click can affect colour/fill. Continuing the theme of cause and effect.

The second animation. For some reason when I upload the quick time movie to youtube, the end cuts off. I'll try and sort this out or if I can then I'll upload the quick time movie.

The first animation, cut down to 5 seconds.

Here I have tried to animate the word click using the idea of cause and effect. By clicking one letter, something else happens to another.

Not sure how to change the screen to widescreen but if you want to see it properly it's on youtube.

link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gVPePbb_hw

Second Set

Here's the second set of 12 frames, although this new type of click made it a bit easier, I still found it difficult sticking to the 12 frames.









I ripped up photocopies of the first sheets and used postits to plan the 18 framer.

Types of Click

I think one of the main problems I was having was that I was restricting how the letter could be clicked, I was mainly focussing on compression. However, after a discussion with Fred I realised that there were lots of different ways the letter could be clicked, which in turn could cause many different results.



Here I used the letter K to think about different ways of clicking. As soon as I began doing this I started to enjoy the brief a lot more and so have decided to re-do the 12 frames with this new way of thinking.

Frames of 12

Today we had a workshop on storyboarding. The storyboards showed what happens to one the letters in our words. One storyboard focussed on a static letter, the second allowed the letter to move horizontally and vertically and the third became 3 dimensional. Above is the first storyboard. I found this task quite difficult. The "click" movement meant that I needed to use 2 or 3 frames just to communicate one click.



I used the idea of an initial click, becoming more impatient because nothing is happening. To communicate this effectively the actual movement and speed of the click is very important and so this became very difficult to show through frames.

After Effects Tutorial One

First attempt at animation using after effects, testing out position, rotation and opacity transformations.

First session

We picked 3 words out of the randomiser to base the start of this module on. My words were "organised", "lost" and "click". The first task was to produce 3 images on an A2 sheet of paper which represented these words, using the letters of the word within it. For "organised" I split the word into vowels and consonants, and then numbered each letter depending on their position in the word.



For the word lost, I considered a number of options but settled on the idea of "lost in numbers". For this I muddled the letters of lost up within the numbers 0-9.



I found click to be the most challenging of the words. I focussed on representing the movement of a mouse click. For this I compressed the letter C and then had the rest of the letters up in the air. I used arrows to try and demonstrate where the energy was.



The next task was to try and communicate the word in 5 frames. This was much easier, as it allowed me to demonstrate the movement of the letters. I tried 5 frames for the 3 different words and then another 3 for the word "click". Seeing as "click" was the most challenging of the words, I think that I may get more out of this word and have decided to develop this word for the brief.