Preparing for animation

Monday 1st October

Prepared to start my animation and finished off my storyboard.

Tuesday 2nd October

Started my animation by making my beginning scenes on the set and learning how to use the camera and how to pan, zoom, prevent different angles, exposure to light and using the focus.

Wednesday 3rd October

Started to make another of my mythical creatures, a fairy called "The Banshee". To create this model, I used a barbie doll. I painted her dress red, with a black belt. I painted her arms black to give the appearance of her wearing gloves and I also painted her legs black to look like she was wearing tights and I painted her hair black too, again using PVA glue, which was also very time consuming. For her wings, I drew them on paper, then painted them black and grey. I then had an idea of laminating them to make them stronger.

Thursday 4th October

I did some more filming, which was very enticing, however, I found out it was quite hard to hold something in the air for a long period of time, whilst clicking a button for each shot when it moves, because if I made a mistake, I would have to figure out where I was last holding my model in place, but its lots of fun and enjoyable even though it is a very time consuming process.

Friday 5th October

Made another mythical creature, called "Fred". I used a polystyrene sphere as his body and painted it black. I then used a plastic horses head for its head and for the bushy tail and legs, I used tough bendy wire as a structure.