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Studio Ghibli

Studio Ghibli

References:

Studio Ghibli has made a variety of films during his animating career and here is a link to some of the animations he has made:

http://www.onlineghibli.com/films.php

Pandora hearts vol. 4 [Book]

Their are 17 books in total for this pandora heart series

My Idea

Stopmotion

For my stopmotion animation i will be using a 3d program called Cinema 4D and i will be making the animation by moving parts bit by bit by rendering each part frame by frame but instead of rendering it as a animation i will make it look like it is stopmotion based as i think this will be easier for me to use and get things done quicker by using this way of stopmotion.

Here are some examples of what you can create in the actual program i will be using:

And here are some results of what you can achieve by the end of the process of building the scene and animating the choice of model:

What my stop motion will be like it will have models from the halo series using the main character from halo and he will be fighting with the enemy of the other side which will be the covenant.

 I will be using references from certain animations to use this in my animation.

Here is some other examples of videos which will give me inspiration for the style of animation i will make whether i choose it to be fluid but realistic or slow with no realism aspect into it.

It is a video from one of my friends who is greatly in depth with his knowledge of 3d animations as many aspects of this video is led by a story but with some 3d animations in the whole video showing the story from start to finish.

Here is another example of halo animations which i will take inspiration from when making the animation for whatever story i am putting to it:

Here are some screenshots from my animation to show you that i have started it as i changed the whole idea from halo models fighting changed it to minecraft as i already had scenes built for minecraft where as if i did a halo animation i would need to find a halo map in either 3d or use original footage from a halo game and composite into the scene so this would mean rendering out the models and then importing them into the game footage using a video editing program and making the shadows fit the original shadows on the map so that it looks real and not to standing out to make it obvious that its 3d.
The idea i have now is minecraft related as i had a skin which was from the game assassins creed 3 which i made the model from assassins creed 3 hold an axe which he uses as a main weapon in that game so it would make sense for me to add that to him, he will hopefully by the end of the animation i want to make the model run from house to house but if thats not possible and i cannot figure a way how to do that then he will simply jump off the end house to kill the enemy as i have made the end sequence before i made anything to see how the end result would sort of turn out to look like as here are some of the screenshots to show you examples of the characters in the scene and the actual scene im working with as well.

What needs to be completed?

Cel based animations + Examples
Claymation/Model animation + Examples
Timelapse animation + examples
Bits on history of animation
Cut out animation + examples
a bit more on persistance of vision

Timelapse Animations

Timelapse Animations

Timelapse animation is a series of still images taken over a long period of time to trick people that it is moving image but in reality it is only a series of still images. Timelapses are usually taken showing the progression going from day to night and then back to day or it could be someone making something which would take hours to make and they set up the camera to take pictures every few seconds so by the end of the animation it will have taken thousands of pictures to build up a video clip of several thousands of pictures which would then either be left as individual pictures or you could convert them into a sequence which you could then also import into a editing program like Adobe After Effects as it reads sequence data so when you open the first one out of the group of pictures it opens up the rest of the pictures in a video form.

Cutout Animation 2

This is an example of what i will be using in my cutout animation and here are examples of the two models i will be using, i will be using a dj deck and i will be using johnny bravo to create a sort of scratching effect which vinyl dj's do when producing a set.

We have included in this animation, a background which is a simple cartoon room for where everything will be held which will include a dj deck, johnny bravo, jessica rabbit.

Cutout Animation

Cutout Animation

Cutout animation is a type of animation which animators use to animate flat objects with materials such as cardboard, paper and stiff fabric, which they create the actual characters with and also the backgrounds for the animation.

There are animations which are still used on TV to date and one of them i know of is called Charlie and Lola, as it is a children's TV show/animation based episodes. 

Here is an example of Charlie and Lola:

This is an example of what Charlie and Lola looks like, it was made in the year 2005 - 2008 as thats when it was commissioned to be made between, but even though it was made between them years it is still aired to date now. 

You set up cutout animation by firstly printing off what images you would like to use e.g. models, backgrounds and then once everything is printed off and ready to animate you then will cut the models at joints which you would want to move like hands, arms, waist, legs, feet and head depending on how complex or simple your animation will be will the decide how many joints you want to cut to animate as if its a complex animation then it will mean that your models will have a lot of joints able to move but if its a simple animation then you will only have 2-3 joints to move which will also depend on the style and way you're going to animate to match your planned out story.