2D animation filming

Before being able to film my 2D animation I had to find a subject on what to base my animation on i had already chosen to do something along the lines of stick man and i had a lot of different ideas that were cropping up from inspiration like Mr Miyagi and Karate Kid, also Dirty Dancing. I decided to do sketches of the characters for the different ideas as i already had an idea on the storyline for the different sketches.

 Designing the characters were very difficult as every character had different aspects from hair to a different body shape to express the type off people they were. I had to redesign and redraw the characters as i put one sketch of them on cardboard which was to thick and i used paper but that curled up after being coloured in. Finally i decided to use black card when designing my characters for the third time, which ended up being the best idea on creating the characters.

Before starting my cutout animation i had to set up a camera by attaching the camera to a animation stand whilst setting the camera up i put a white sheet of paper underneath and when I turned it on the white balance had been set up wrong so i had to balance it to make it look normal as the white was a tint of orange. Because of the darkness of the room i had to rig up some copy lights that lit up the paper evenly brightening it up.  

When filming the cutout animation it became difficult as the characters were hard to move because the pieces were small and thin. another thing that was bad was that the movement wasn't smooth enough because of the body moving when the legs and arms were supposed to be moved and not the body at that time however when i realised my errors from then i made it look and seem a lot smoother when filming at 12fp/s

One of my sketch ideas was to do a type of style of kung fu fighting between and elderly man and a young foolish man that wanted to make a name for himself and when he challenged the elderly he was re-payed in death. I wanted it to be ironic and a sketch that in the real world would probably never happen and i gave it my twist to the sketch. Furthermore my second sketch was a mock take of the 1980's hit dirty dancing where they did the famous lift and during the sketch they commence the lift and then she is thrown over him and he walks as if that was it. My last sketch was of a young child playing with a ball that is twice the size of him and when kicked comes back at him and because of his little stature is taken away with the ball.

When editing my rough copy of my final 2D piece i got a feel for the music that i was likely to include within my final animation film that would make it entertaining and enjoyable. I will be making my own sounds for the kung fu sketch as it was hard to find the classic kung fu shouts e.g. Hiiiyyaaa, Hwwoaaa and others.