First Animation Experiment

This is my first attempt at the stop motion animation. I just made it very simple, and did the background, to see if I could actually do it well.

I used my phone on a phone tripod to take the photos. I wish I could’ve used my iPad as the photo quality would have been better, but I couldn’t figure out a way of propping it up and keeping it in the same place for every photo. The phone tripod is cheap and small, so I had to blue tack it to some boxes. This wasn’t stable so at one point it fell off, which is why the framing changes at one point. When I do the photos again I will take more care to make sure the tripod is secure.

Overall I think the experimentation is a success. I painted the trees bit by bit, and then put the photos in reverse order. The addition of the fire does make it look like the trees are burning down. I do think it would be better if this happened more slowly, so next time I will paint smaller bits of the trees at a time, and take more photos.