First stop-motion: My group was John Battle, Ethan Ballard, and Morgan Whittaker and this was our first attempt at stop motion:
Research: I love the work of Tim Burton especially his movie "Coraline". I chose Tim because his style of stop motion is so perfect and you don't see any slight screw ups like an object moving on it's own by accident. A lot of other stop motion filmmakers make a slight mistake that ruins the whole illusion. Tim Burton was from Burbank, California and started out as a Disney animator before going out on his own. Some of his popular films include Edward Scissor-hands, Beetle-juice, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. His movies also star his wife Bohnam Carter who plays many characters I didn't recognize.
His movie Coraline which I found really disturbing had so many people working on it. There were 70 different faces used to make one strand of dialogue. When they were creating the main character they had so many different options of what she would look like to begin with.
His movie Coraline which I found really disturbing had so many people working on it. There were 70 different faces used to make one strand of dialogue. When they were creating the main character they had so many different options of what she would look like to begin with.
Storyboard: Sadly I lost our storyboard, but initially we were planning on him running into the wall and then trying again. After that it would flash "game over" then "the end". We had to shorten it due to the amount of time we needed to edit it and the last part was tilted weird and was a video so it was scrapped.It originally was more frames until he died as well.
I worked with Morgan Whittaker, and John Battle on this project. The most difficult part of the project was remembering where everything was on the wall the next day of filming, and all of the photoshop process. I would have not used a wall and used an actually stable camera. Not to mention filming on the same exact day. I wish the story was more vivid than it appears to be because we don't have a start or end cut.