All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost...
Narrative 1 – Animation
In animation, we have spent the majority of our time working on the mood scenes. This has included: building, glueing and painting the background for our set; building, painting, and taking pictures of our puppets; and animating digital versions of our puppets. The “real” and “digital” versions of our puppets only did stop-frame animations of them walking across the screen, but we have been working on this since October. The puppet was made with wire, popsicle sticks, and foam; then covered with various cloths, paint, and drawings. The whole thing was put together with hot glue and sewing. The digital characters were animated frame by frame in Photoshop – I chose to make a frame animation, meaning I have a separate image for each image, rather than redrawing the image for each frame.
Our final project for the Visual Narrative was limited to “a story with no dialogue”, in groups of three. This meant that we could do whatever we wanted, as long as it followed a story and made chronological sense. We chose to animate a fox, who lives in the city but is unhappy enough that he moves to the woods. There, he finds a guitar, and plays it, happy to rest and relax away from all the noise.