Potential Future

If we were given the chance to expand on the idea and continue with the project this is how we would do it...


The origami man begins as sheet of paper and suddenly folds to life; he wonders through the world interacting with other sheets of papers and creating other models like origami dragons, birds and boomerangs.


He goes through the world not satisfied with the things he has created and feels lonely without a friend. Eventually, after all his efforts he manages to create himself a female companion.

As a group this was discussed and decided as fitting way to improve and build on the idea and create a interesting and unique graphical narrative.

Reflection & Notes

Hit with problem after problem, the project didn't seem to be getting anywhere - but after much effort and perseverance we managed to create an animation. Not an animation rich in narrative or special effects but a decent level of skill and understanding.

Not too bad considering we suffered issues with:

Lighting - Always changing, environmental influences
Camera - Focusing, Exposure, White Balance
Theft - Origami man was stolen!
And on the last day, corrupt data resulting in footage lose.

...Oh yeah, the whole team was ONLY in the last TWO days, out of the 3/4 weeks we had!

 Drew: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrv58i0rUaI

First Footage(s)

 

New Start

Here is new image of set up - we had to relevel and line-up everything!!

And we've started filming real useable frames.

Mood Board

Wednesday 9, February 2011

Today we're trying to satisfy the Production and Pre-Production criteria.

We constructed the set:

Here is Swan Animation Test done yesterday:

Top Down Test Export

Yet another quick test.

Origami Test - Man

Couple of second worth of test animation, testing the arm movements on camera.

What I'm doing today.

Working on creating some stencils for our backgrounds and creating some props, such as clouds, hills or grass. Will try to use the airbrush to get the backgrounds we need complete (need the storyboard to check on these first)

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Rest of team will be completing test animations and starting set construction.

Background, check!

Got a chance to use the air brush today to produce the backgrounds for our animation. The original idea was to use white ink on a black background, however this didn't show up very well at all, so we used black ink on a white background, to give off the effects of different shades of grey.

We also discussed different ways to animate our backgrounds, from using layers and props, using transitions with objects, and even doing just a straight cut to the next scene.

I'll update this post a little later with some pictures of the backgrounds.

Goals

Brain storm ideas with most of the team intact.

Test Animation

Get through project production.

The Origami Kite

Our Character

The Origami Man by Devon Farnell

More Origami Practice

Bird

Very hard to make!

Possible Software Choices

Software we may or may not use:

iStopMotion

iMovie

Final Cut Pro

Adobe After Effects

Autodesk Maya

Origami Practice

On Monday I just practiced my folds and followed some origami guides online.

Here is what I produced:

All

Dragon

Flapping Bird

Cranes

Boomerang 

Butterfly

New Goals

Materials

White and Black Styrene sheets

Other

Logo: Origami Bird, black/white

Premise

How long video will be

Sounds/Music

Camera angles

Limitations

Goals

Story/Premise

Practice folds

POW!

This is our blog to document the progress of our stop motion animation project "Black and White Origami".