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Stop Motion

This is the final product of the project.

Research for stop motion animation

This is the image that me and the team have based the idea for the project on. It show a polar bear on a tiny melting iceberg, in the meddle of the freezing sea, with nowhere else to go. We wanted to show with our animation that things like this are actually happening because of the pollution, and it is up us to fix this. We wanted to wake the viewer's sympathy, and to make them take an action and save our animals and our planet!

This is the Storyboard for the stop motion animation. We changed it a bit so it could me possible to make with the resources and the skills the group had. The general idea was to have the bear to walk to an unstable ice section, the ice breaks and the iceberg floats away from the main land and is in the middle of the sea, and then the bear falls off the iceberg with no way to climb back. The original idea was to just zoom out when the iceberg is in the middle of the sea and leave it to the viewer to decide what happens to the bear, but we changed that over the time of the production. Even thought the planned animation was quite short, we decided to compensate that with the smoothness of the animation.

1. What was your focus/theme for your animation?

We decided to focus on Global warming and the decreasing population of the Polar Bear.

2. Do you think your group prortrayed your theme well? Why?

Yes, I think my group portrayed the theme quite well, because we showed that what we humans do can effect innocent creatures that other wise should be thriving in their natural habitat, but because of people's careless approach towards the nature, countless species are suffering, including ourselves.

3. What materials did you use? Were they effective and why?

We used a carboard box for the base of the set, Tissue paper for the water, sky and the clouds and cotton wool for the bear. I think the materials we used were effective because the carboard box gave us the stability we needed for the set, the tissue paper gave us the light effect of water and gave it good texture, made the sky solid and bright, and the clouds light.

4. What software did you use and how did you find using it?

We used the mobile stop motion app "Stop Motion studio"for the entire production. I find it quite usefull and easy to use as it made taking photos for the animation easy, and had bunch of other useful tools, for example add text and black out.

5. What do you think your group did well? Why?

I think the group did very well making the set and the movement, the key was in setting different tasks to everyone. I think we did well because we worked as a team and achieved a great final piece.

6. What do you think the group could have improved on, how and why?

I think we could have improved the set a little as there were some holes in the tissue paper on the wall of the set. Also I think we could have used bluetags for the clouds so we could move them.

7. Do you agree/disagree with the feedback? Why?

The feedback said we could have added sound which I agree with because it could have made the animation more live and impressionable.

8. If you could do this again what would you do differently?

I think we could have benefited from the feedback a lot and the if we had a little more time we could have focused on the sound and making the set as clean as possible.