In this animation unit we have to come up with a project using whichever animation technique we choose.
My animation choice is claymation.
I will be animating an "Oopee", a character I have designed. In the animation the Oopee will begin to bounce and then be caught by a hand, following this the hand will squeeze the Oopee so it shoots out of the hand and then falls to the floor and gets squished.
The planning which has been done so far involved at the beginning trying to incorporate a key word into our animation. I chose bounce, squeeze and then squish. Originally we just drew ideas that came into our heads to see whether it would be good to use. I eventually chose to have an Oopee as my character. I began to work on a storyboard showing drawings to represent each part of the animation. Then we had to fill in a proposal form which meant we had to explain our animation, why we'd chosen to do what we are going to do and what the character is like.
I need to finalise ideas and storyboard next and begin to think what techniques, colours of clay etc will be used.
The skills i'll need to work on are clay sculpting and camera techniques.
