Finished Stop Motion Animation

My Stop Motion Animation from Zac Barber on Vimeo.

How I did my Stop-Motion Animation

To capture my animation I could've used a video camera and record it straight onto the PC, but i prefered to use my SLR to take the images and then join them together into a sequence.


Once I had taken all of my still images I put them into Adobe Premiere and combined them to make a video. I then edited the length of the clip to either slow down or speed up my animation.
In my case the speed I needed was about 1000%.

in preparation for my animation i have looked at more examples of stop motion.

Here is an example of a stop motion animation by Monty Python


Other examples I found are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG5gO4nlLRQ&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfCUxeQ2VSE&NR=1

Hockney-Style Photomontage

I then had a go at making my own Hockney style photomontage.
I had a practice just using the school building for my images. This is the result:

After completing this I realised that it looks too realistic to what I wanted to achieve. Also, it didn't fit my choosen theme of moods from urban landscapes.

Also, I think my pictures fit together too well so for my next effort I will adjust angles, sizes and places of each image. When its finished it still needs to look like pictures stuck together rather than a normal image.

I put all my sections of photos together and rotated some of them and changed the sizes to make them look less natural and give a similar effect to Hockney's work.
After I had all the pictures in position I adjusted the Hue/Saturation and added a cooling photo filter.

Once I was happy with my work I saved it as a JPEG. I am very pleased with the result.

Photomontage

To make my photomontage i used two pictures that I have taken recently. One was of the town centre and one was at the skate park.

I used the picture of the town centre and added in all my other images onto it. Then, i took my other background image and put it over the top and selected an opacity of around 20%.

I liked the way that the sunset came through but it wasn't bright enough. So before I finished I selected the sky of my 2nd background at 20% and adjusted the saturation to more saturated. I then added all the layers back on and was pleased with the result.

Photomontage - Further Research and Plan

For my own photomontage, I want to incorporate an urban landscape. I have found some examples that are similar to what I want to produce.

These examples are particularly interesting as they add different moods to the landscape. The firtst one has a depressing and rather mystical feel to it, whereas the second image adds a feel of happiness to the city. We normally associate cities with work, business and many people, but this photomontage makes the city seem playful and exciting.

For my photomontage, I'm going to take some images of urban areas in surrounding areas and choose the best one or select the best parts from them and collaborate them into one. I'm then going to take photographs of everyday objects, both personal and social, to get a feel for the sort of lifestyle a person like me lives.

Examples of Stop Motion Animation

Here are two examples of Stop Motion Animation: