Animation Assignment

With our story being based on a typical night for 'Roxanne', to set the scene of a back alley way we needed to have a brick wall background covered with graffiti n order for it to look realistic. We also needed to create a background for the rehabilitation scene. Below are the backgrounds that myself and Rosie designed. 

 


To create our animation we downloaded the ZU3d application on to a laptop and worked mostly from home. We created the animation by taking images using the camera on the laptop, and then making the smallest of movements with our characters and taking another image, this then created the frames and when played in a sequence it shows as a video. This stage of the animation was rather difficult when it came to the movement of the characters, if there was too much movement or not enough then then video as a whole would not flow.


This image on the left shows the ZU3d application, whilst we were creating our animation.

Within our animation we wanted to highlight that no matter how bad of a situation you are in there is always help out there If you want it, help can make you change your life and you as a person. At the beginning of our animation we showed 'Roxanne' in suggestive clothing, which was a pink crop top and short skirt so when it came to the rehabilitation scene we had to show a difference in her that would protray our message. We did this by changing her clothing to make her more sophisticated.

            This image on the right shows the difference in Roxanne in the rehabilitation scenes. 


'Zu3D stop-motion animation software has been developed to give children (and adults) of all ages the freedom to create amazing animated films quickly and easily, in school and at home' (ZUlogic ltd, 2012) 






REFERENCES 

ZUlogic ltd, 2012,. Retrieved January 2015. Available at: http://www.zu3d.com