Scarlett Correa and Madeleine Lachesnez
Stop motion project
Due: 9/30/13
Artist
Statement
"Henry"
"Henry"
Our story revolves around the process of animation
through a short glimpse in the life of a curious and enthusiastic octopus that
has a very difficult time making friends. We found this to be a topic that
allows the audience to empathize, while also being something we don’t give much
thought to when it comes to animals, who can be social creatures like us. So in
spite of being very kind and friendly, whenever our cheerful octopod
protagonist approaches another sea creature, they ignore him or are too busy to
stop and say hello.
We chose to animate all the creatures in a very loose style
that maintained artistic integrity where it was still clear that each frame was
hand drawn, rather than going for a polished Disney look. We took care to use perspective
and framing to our advantage by emphasizing certain scenes that were pivotal to
the story, the most important one being the introduction of our octopus friend,
Henry, who is an example of the illustrative process. Although we could only do
8 to 10 frames per second given how labor intensive our approach was, we aimed
to make the movements as smooth as possible through subtle changes in each
frame.
There is some
difference between our animation styles, which we decided to keep in since
animators typically work in teams and work around each other to come up with a
final product. Since our video focuses mainly on the beginning stages of that
process, we let the audience inside our world as creators.
Altogether this project was hugely insightful and
allowed us some firsthand experience in the world of animation, a field we
already had enormous respect for. We learned some tricks for simplifying and
looping images that reduced our work load while still allowing us the smooth
movement of characters. We enjoyed the process immensely and hope to be able to
work on something like this again in the future.
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