White Board Animations

The lecture started off with each student being put into a group. The task was to create an animation where we had to move a box from one side of a house to the other, I know this sounds plain and simple but plain and simple is great in my book because it allows you to create weird and wonderful solutions to a situation and be as creative as you want. While coming up with ideas we were told that we had to make this animation 10 seconds long, and have 12 frames in 1 second so 120 images. I at first thought it was going to be easy but it gets very hard when you have so many complicated ideas floating around, especially when everyone in your group wants to get there idea put on the board. Luckily my group was very talented and we all seemed to work well together which made the spit ball process so much easier. We very quickly came up with a creative idea to move the box and we started straight away, unfortunately we realised that sections of are idea were flawed as they were too complicated to draw frame per frame in the time given to us so we adapted are idea which by the end I thought look really amazing. When we finished and looked back at our images we realized that we had left some drawings unchanged for loads of frames e.g. we drew some birds which seem to hover for about 20 frames. Since this is our first ever animation I think these are the sought of little mistakes which happen but overall it still looked really good. I can’t wait to try again and perfect this kind of animation.



This is the video that was shown to us as an example of whiteboard animation and how it works on film. I love how this really low tech method of animation is so popular in the TV industry for example the "CARPHONE WAREHOUSE" TV adverts!!!! I would really like to create one in the same style but using paper or something???



My groups video should be up soon-ish !!!!!!!!!!!