Evolution of Man

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Story of a Square.

Sooooo.....got my place in Animation and now I'm super excited about starting the brief we've been given; ''The Story of a Square.''.

We must use the square as the starting point and endpoint of the animation. The square can become anything we want, in order to tell the story. It must return to the square after 10 seconds.

So, we saw a lot of examples of different animations and it came to my attention that the more simply, clever and funny they were, the more memorable they are to the viewer. I came up with the idea of using 'The Evolution of Man' except that I didn't want it to be just the boring idea of from ape to man. I decided I was going to try and incorporate some humour into it. So, my plan was that once the stage of evolution came to the usual ending of this muscley, ideal male, he would then transform into an over weight, lazy man holding a beer.

 

I thought that maybe he could make a burping sound then too.

 

 

After the overweight man, I got the idea for him to morph into the much dreading Gangnam Style dancer.

 

 

And then, a Charlie's Angels type woman would come out to shoot this much dreaded character to which she would then knock him back into his box, which will end it back on the square.

 

 

As my project involves the evolution of man and morphing into different things, I thought that Fatboy Slim's music video 'Right here, right now..' had relevance.

 

 

I began to start drawing the figures I need for my animation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stop Motion, Clay Animation

 

 

The line 'I told you so....' was what this video was based on. I decided I would do a clay animation because I thought it would be really fun to try out and would be really enjoyable. I also thought it would be a bit of a challange so that appealed to me too.

 

I began looking at episodes of Wallace and Gromit as it always puzzled me to how they actually made a film out of little clay characters. I found it amazing! The more I looked at, the more daunting the idea that I had to make one of these seemed.

 

Wallace and Gromit - A Matter of Loaf and Death (Part 1)

 

 

Wallace and Gromit - Fright of the Bumblebees (Part 1)

 

 

After doing the research I began to make my characters out of playdoh. I decided on a turtle as my main character because I love turtles. I named him Squirt, like out of Finding Nemo because I also love that film.

 

I then worked on the rest of my characters. My set was based around a pond so I figured I should do water-based animals.

However, I ran out of cute water animals so I put a mouse in a lifeguard buoy and a hedgehog on the bank of the pond.

After a long day of shooting each individual photo, I brought them into Adobe Premiere Pro and created my stop motion, clay animation.