Task 1: Traditional Animation (Emma)

Claymation with the title 'The Box':

To make this claymation a lot of techniques had to be used. In order to make sure that the video was long enough we had to work out the frame rates which told us around about how many pictures we would need to take to create the animation (In the case of our animation - we decided to have our box be drowned at sea). In my animation we used 136 shots which worked out at 5 frames per second. My stop-motion is very slow and has a really low frame rate so it's easy to see to separate shots, I wanted to increase the frame rate so as to make it look a lot smoother but due to a glitch on the computer my shots were lost. To create the animation we had to change the scene after every picture that we took so that when we put the clips together it looks like a fluid video that makes sense. Since I edited the video on Final Cut it was exported as a .MOV file so that it could be put onto YouTube.

Short animation using Flash with the 'onion skin' technique and tweening:

To make this animation on Flash CC we had to use a technique called 'onion skin' which means that you can change the original shape you made but you can still see the layers underneath when you make alterations. To make the animation a gif I saved it under the file format of .gif so that the animation works as an image but you can still see the movement.

The 'Persistence of Vision' theory:

Persistence of vision is the theory that an image is thought to remain for a fraction of a second on the retina. This theory explains why nobody sees the black spaces that are between each frame of a movie. A form of memory known as 'iconic memory' is thought to be the explanation of the persistence of vision theory even though the theory as a whole was disproved in 1912 by Wertheimer. In animation, was is perceived as a moving image is what most people refer to as an 'illusion'. What we are seeing is, in rapid succession, a series of images. These images are separated by a small period of darkness however due to the series of images our brain processes this as one smoothly moving image. If images are flashed at a rate of at least 10 frames per second then the brain sees this as one moving image instead of a load of still images. This is because of the illusion of movement that happens when a sequence of images is shown in quick succession, our eyes trick us and we fail to notice the separate frames.