Well, the pictures are finally in. In the weeks before Easter, another batch of monsters were created, but this time instead of the large sized creatures for the pixelation tests – which were also to show just how careful you have to be when filming animation (no fingers, feet or heads in the shot, please!), various movies were created through different animation techniques.
Five bases were created, where different methods were investigated. The methods were:
cut-out animation, using a rostrum technique
shadow cut-out animation, using lightbox and overhead camerawork
zoetropes
flipbooks
stop motion animation
These sessions seem to go really quickly and brought it home to everyone how much work needs to go into even a small amount of animation.
