Abracadabra

For this project I chose to do an animation about a magician, because I liked the fact that I can connect the pictures in a different sequence than reality, which allowed me to do some magic tricks. I photographed about 800 pictures, and ended with about 500 photographs that I connected together.

To fit the sound was the hard part. I chose two background songs that correspond with the atmosphere I wanted to create. Than I added few different tracks of real object's sounds to fit the actions of the man in the movie.

Alex Suarez

Ashley Bennett

For my animation, I wanted to capture the confusion, randomness and playfulness that kids experience as a result of their imagination. Done using a whiteboard and Photoshop.

Matt Picon

For this project I decided to explore the use of bizarre and unconventional ideas in making a "drawing-like" animation. I used actual patents of inventions, and wanted to present how they worked. It wasn't necessary to make the entire drawing move but to focus the motion on certain aspects within each invention that made them unique. Sound was added, originally just having the soundtrack which gave it a silent film feel. Eventually sound effects were used to add to the overall ambiance, not to give literal sounds to each device but more of a satirical representation of these unrealistic inventions.

So for this project I decided to demonstrate animation, via paper with a desk background. This was extremely frustrating, seeing how if I breathed deeply or sneezed, every piece of the setting and character would fly off. Other than that, the setting and the music was deeply influenced by Charlie Brown Christmas, and decided to get a bit cartoonish with the sound effects.

Brandon Beren

Used modeling clay. This is part 1 of the whole thing. I didn't have the time to shoot the entire planned animation. The Song is Inside Every Bird by Mark Growden.

Evans Bouck Animation Project

For our project we chose to do a suicide backwards. Ryan took pictures of me (Alyssa) while I pretended to commit suicide. We worked together in Audacity, Final Cut Pro, and Photoshop to create the final product. We chose On the Nature of Daylight as a background song because we thought it would enhance the emotions of the video. We also added other sound effects that went with the actions in the video.

Haleigh Klandrud Animation Project

My project is titled "Dream Away" because it is about a girl imagining herself as different characters and the different places she would be.  I got the idea for this animation from the Amazon Kindle commercials. I used the stop-motion technique of pixilation and had my actress lay on the ground with sheets as backgrounds, while the camera was set up above her taking the pictures. I used cut outs and toys as the other props. I added a song that lasted for the whole video because it was the song that originally gave me the idea for the animation. (Also, the song is titled Dream Away, thus the title for the animation) The other sound effects I added were for the specific things that happen during the animation like the flapping of the bat's wings, the ocean sounds, bubbles coming from the fish's mouth, the magic wand, etc. I kept the title and "The End" as part of the animation because I thought it kept with the "cuteness" of the piece.