With Halloween on the brain, pumpkins seemed like the perfect platform for a stop-motion storyline. They also had a thick, shiny surface that allowed for facial animation that really helped to solidify the narrative through the main character's [the pumpkin's] emotions to the actions happening around him. Similar to the scanography assignment, the nature of stop-motion led me to want to pursue a narrative that was fun! As silly as it sounds, a lot of the art work I do tends to be serious, or at least I take it somewhat seriously, but right away this jerky form of motion made me want to instantly do something more fun, comical, slap-sticky and with funny expressions. You can see why the format leads perfectly to cute clay characters like Wallace and Gromit. Perhaps because of my age as an elementary student in the 1990s, stop motion played a huge role in my experience with entertainment. In one of the golden-ages of stop motion feature films, The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Wallace and Gromit were huge favorites in my household, James and the Giant Peach probably winning out as one of my favorite movies of all time. There was something captured in the way those films were made that was very different than cartoon or computer animation - perhaps 3-Dimensional objects are more relatable to our real lives and our own physical toys and figurines. This was a fun and nostalgic assignment for me, and the excitement of seeing it all played back together was worth the careful and time-consuming process!
With Halloween on the brain, pumpkins seemed like the perfect platform for a stop-motion storyline. They also had a thick, shiny surface that allowed for facial animation that really helped to solidify the narrative through the main character's [the pumpkin's] emotions to the actions happening around him. Similar to the scanography assignment, the nature of stop-motion led me to want to pursue a narrative that was fun! As silly as it sounds, a lot of the art work I do tends to be serious, or at least I take it somewhat seriously, but right away this jerky form of motion made me want to instantly do something more fun, comical, slap-sticky and with funny expressions. You can see why the format leads perfectly to cute clay characters like Wallace and Gromit. Perhaps because of my age as an elementary student in the 1990s, stop motion played a huge role in my experience with entertainment. In one of the golden-ages of stop motion feature films, The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Wallace and Gromit were huge favorites in my household, James and the Giant Peach probably winning out as one of my favorite movies of all time. There was something captured in the way those films were made that was very different than cartoon or computer animation - perhaps 3-Dimensional objects are more relatable to our real lives and our own physical toys and figurines. This was a fun and nostalgic assignment for me, and the excitement of seeing it all played back together was worth the careful and time-consuming process!
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omg! It's such an awesome idea!!! I love it!!!
ReplyDeleteI can't tell how much I love this stop motion. You bring up an interesting point of view from the pumpkin's perspective to see the halloween means to them. The background music is fit for the theme. Although it only 35 seconds, you are well telling the story with a climax point. For the next step, I really love to see a series of the pumpkin story. If I have to say a thing that would make this video munch better, I will say you could add a filter on top of your animation so it will look cinematically.
DeleteI really like this project you created. It looks fun and humorous on all aspects from the idea, the story and the shooting. You're able to tell a story within a short amount of time and it perfectly echoed with the holiday theme that week. The background music is also on point. My only suggestion may be playing around a little more with the part where the pumpkin falls from the table, so a dramatic angle or shoot can be incorporated for an even more fluid storytelling.
ReplyDeleteThis project is amazing! I think itself is pretty strong, for containing a cute character (the pumpkin), an interesting storyline, and lovely music that match with the scenes. I love how the character is changing its emotions as reactions to what's happening. Also the image composition is intriguing and include thinking of color matching and contrasts. The placement of other kitchen equipments and orange pots add points for the stop motion animation. If there's one thing need to be improved, I would say the scene when pumpkin is full of knifes and falling down does not really match with the style of the original scene. Maybe you can re-think about the changing scenes.
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