Group 6 stop motion animation

On the first day when we started animation we each drew and storyboard of our own and pitched it to our group. Mine was about a cartoon cat who tries to fix things but ends up failing most of the time. I was influence mostly by animations i like to sometimes watch like Futurama and Adventure Time. Once everyone in my group had pitched there idea we went with one where it was a person looking into a picture book and everyone in the group started putting ideas forward on where to go with this. The idea changed a lot of the course of the day and every time we would have crit about our ideas we would get rid of the stuff which didn't work and try to add and expand on the stuff that did.

We finally came up with the idea about a fly trying to find his "paradise" but before we reached that idea we went though numerous including having a book coming alive and eating the fly like a flytrap and the book sucking the fly in to a strange world showing the chain of evolution. Seeing those ideas it was quite obvious what we thought worked and what didn't as some of it was either to boring or to ambitious for a 30 second animation. 

Once we had the main idea set we went around changing and adding things to it including the fly being hit outside, removing some scenes in the storyboard so we could expand on others and changing what we would use for the stop motion to make it easier. 

The next day we started drawing the assets we would use in our film, i think we worked really well in doing this as we all had the same idea on what the end goal would be which defiantly helped us to work better as a team. We got the best drawers to draw the actual characters like the fly and the cat and the rest of us took to drawing extra things which would be in the the background like windows, drinks, fans, tables and many other things. 

On the First day of filming we ran in to a huge problem which set us back a day when our save file for our project came corrupt because of this we had to come in the next day and reshot everything we had already done which was annoying. The day after when we all came in again it felt a lot easier as we all knew what to do right from the start and we did things better than what we had in the original so it actually turned out to be a good thing losing our work. 

Things i thought worked well in the group was definitely our team work as we all got along and did things that needed to be done, we also managed to get everything drawn and ready for the next day all in one day so when it came to filming we did not have to waste anytime getting things ready. Some other things which worked well was everyone bringing a different perspective to the group so we would know if something was not as good as we thought and also the sounds and effects added by jack made the animation come to life even more which was great.

Some of the things that did not work so well was probably just the fact we lost our original save file as the rest of the project went really smoothly and losing our original save file went from a negative to a positive as we made a really good short animation in the end.

Overall animation was something i did not expect to enjoy but really did in the end, theres something great about seeing something you have worked on for days come to life when you start to play back what you have got. So lastly here is the final animation we which did.

The final animation.

People in my group:
Jack
Nima
Eliz
David
Ina
Me