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Animation inspiration : LONDON

The inspiration for my short animation video is London. The reason for this is because it is the city that I live in. It's a magnificent tourist destination and I'm always fascinated with what London has to offer. Therefore, thought it would be a good idea to centre my animation around the London. I have also had inspiration for it after watching the Paddington trailer.

Sea story Export

For this task, myself and Leah had to create a short animation that revolved around the theme of 'under the sea'. I created the background for our animations and the shark that I made out of plasticine and Leah created the little fish after taking inspiration from Finding Nemo. I was pleased with the outcome because it told the story of the little fish running away from the Shark and ended up not being eaten at the end. Although it was short it was longer compared to our first video 'Pockets', it was an improvement in that sense. It was longer video because we took more shots and made our characters take a few steps at a time.

Persistance of vision

Persistence of vision makes moving objects and puppets appear to be move on it's own. In animation, what we perceive as a moving image is actually an illusion. What we are really seeing is a succession of still images displayed in rapid sequence. Persistence of vision was not created by anyone, instead it was discovered by very early optical illusional toys which showed the theory was correct and accurate.

Eadweard Muybridge was the man who famously proved a horse can fly. Adapting the very latest technology to his ends, he proved his theory by getting a galloping horse to trigger the shutters of a bank of cameras. This experiment proved indisputably for the first time what no eye had previously seen – that a horse lifts all four hooves off the ground at one point in the action of running. Seeking a means of sharing his groundbreaking work, he invented the zoopraxiscope, a method of projecting animated versions of his photographs as short moving sequences, which anticipated subsequent developments in the history of cinema.

Pockets

Our first animation task was to find things that we had in our pockets or in our bags and to animate it. I had a Mcdonalds voucher and a few coins. This was the outcome.

Animation in the making

Photography by Usama Kayani