2009 WB Induction: Board Animation

In this introduction lesson we created board animations on whiteboards. We did this by using a camera with a stand to take pictures of a frame by frame animation. This technique is known as pixelation. This is done by taking a picture of your drawn piece on the board and slightly modifying it by rubbing it out and moving it slightly. So when you look back at the picutres, it looks like a sequence of movement is happening.

For our animation we had draw/animate a box and get it from one side of the house to the other using interesting concepts and gags to make the piece appealing. The piece was suppposed to last around 10 seconds. Unfortunately ours didnt meet the demands. However, I still found it to be successful. my groups animation is the one that begins from 1:08 in this youtube clip.

Overview of work:

Advantages:
- I think having the house animated is an excellent idea, because it gives the piece a more human feal. Doing this allows the interaction of the viewer and piece to connect easier.
- The use of fire and water (fire from the demon and water from the cloud) are well animated into the piece. I think we demonstrated the movement and flow of these two earth elements smoothly and effectively.
- I think the page being folded at the end is also a nice touch, as it gives a really comic book vibe of.

Disadvantages:
- I think the most important disadvantage is that it wasnt long enough. Having it not long enough stopped us from incoperating more ideas into the piece.
- Also the drawing got a bit sloppy and rushed near to the end of the piece, which discredited it slightly.
- Finally, I think we could have incoperated some human interaction with the board animations like other groups did. for example 00:51-00:53.