Monday 27 February 2012

In The Factory

After a full day of animating the first camera sweep inside the factory is now complete and it looks fantastic! This was one of the busiest scenes so far with lots of things moving including conveyor belts, pistons, dryers, blades, spoons and robotic hands! We can't wait until tomorrow when we will start animating the second camera sweep inside the factory, plus capture close ups from today.



And here's a huge shop we made for the street scene...


Wednesday 15 February 2012

The Factory Set

All the artwork is now complete for the factory set and it looks fantastic! There will be lots of things moving all at the same time once we start animating including the conveyor belt, the chopping knives, rolling pins and spaghetti boxes - very exciting!




Making Machinery

At the same time as animating the farming scenes we are busy making the machinery for the new set. We have made lots of cogs for the conveyor belt as well as dryers, mechanical arms, rolling pins, dough balls and lot, lots more!

 








 And here's our title, made out of cardboard letters!


A New Set...

Now that we have animated the first and last scenes we have changed the set for the farm scene. We now have animals to animate as well as tractors, wheat and windmills! Here are the pigs waiting to be animted!


And this is what our new set looks like!




On the picture below you can see the set on the laptop screen that we are using to animate with.


Monday 6 February 2012

Animating

We have had another full day of animating today. So far we have animated the first scene and the last scene...still lots to do. It's great fun!!






Thursday 2 February 2012

Music for our film

Today we commissioned a musician to produce a piece of music for our film. We spoke to him over the phone, explained the storyline and described the type of music we would like him to create. We have asked him to use acoustic guitars, violins, flutes and the piano. It was very exciting to speak to him and we can't wait to hear the music he produces!




Animation begins!

Today was a great day...we started animating! It was hard work as we had to move more than one thing at once between shots and it was tricky to remember what order to move things in and in which direction! It was great fun though! Today we filmed the first scene where the Spaghetti truck drives along the road passed the scarecrow, the farmer and the crows. We also animated the windmills, the rabbit and the horse!




In between animating we carried on making more characters and props for the next scenes including a mole, a pig and a cow. The mole is going to be animated peering out of the ground, so we had to cut it up into smaller pieces and then put them in the right order, ready for animating!




Testing the camera slider

We have done some test sequences today with the camera slider to test the movement of the camera as well as the movement of the characters. We have to move the camera 5mm each time we take a picture along with moving lots of characters and props on set. It's so exciting!

  






Set complete!

The animation film set is now complete! We have added the finishing touches to the background, including painting the back wall with white paint and rollers which was great fun! Just a few more replacement characters to finish and then we are ready to start animating!

Painting the background with rollers and white paint!
Painting the background with rollers and white paint!
Adding a water wash to the fields
Finishing the replacement horses