In order to get us even more used to the college and to learn some new areas and skills within animation to prove that it does not simply have to be limited to computer-generated styles, we were introduced to the ceramics department along with the woodwork and metalwork rooms. We were given the task of creating a character that we would then eventually create in 3D by using a range of materials; clay, plasticine and then a glaze to finish off our clay sculpture.
I throughly enjoyed these inductions and although I was ill for the third and final part of our induction, the first two were great and allowed me to expand my knowledge of stop motion animation and the processes used in creating a model.
The first session was introducing us to creating a character on paper that would be suitable for a model to be created from. We started by drawing out a character of our choice, measuring out the height of roughly 7 inches on the paper. This would give us an indication when creating the model of proportions as our models would need to be about 7 inches high in total.
Although you can see I have used a colour scheme that I would have liked to apply to my character, we were challenged to stick with only one colours; red, black or white. We learned that simplicity was key in creating stop motion models as it can often be tedious to swap the faces and expressions, body parts and so forth if many colours have been used as it can look very messy! Drawing the character in a T pose with arms splayed out meant that if we modelled our character like this with the armature in a similar shape, it would be easier for movement as the arms could move a little more freely.
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