Narrative and SequenceMichaela Kmetikova, Erica Barbosa,

Gabriele Maciulaityte

Our characters

Peastache Jolie Skitt

Peastache

Peastache is a 200 years old boy. He loves nature and gardening. He has a very cosy garden and he sleeps there every night. He is a Samaritan with a very sweet heart. He never leaves his house without his gardening tools. He always finds a use for them as he loves to help others.

JolieJolie is a teen girl who is very cheerful and loves any kind of fun. She is studies time manipulation, however she is not allowed to do it yet. She loves nature and flying around with the sound of the wind. She usually hangs up in the tree crows as she can see the whole world from there.

SkittSkitt is a 15 year old boy and he absolutely loves skiing. It is his life and if you can’t find him, he is probably on some nearby slope. He is very active but loves fun as well. He goes to a lot of parties and always makes sarcastic comments that make everybody laugh. His favourite sweets are skittles. He really sees the world through the Skittles glasses.

Black and White cut outs

Our first story

Our fun day in park

Our proposal

For our final project we have decided to make a stop frame animation video. We really loved our first try and we would like to explore what our possibilities are with this type of animation. We want this animation to be in a full colour and we want to use different techniques of stop frame animations. For this animation we will use many different media. Firstly, a camera will be needed to take pictures. Secondly, we will use paper a media for execution of our story. In the end we will surely use after effects to add any sounds and texts and also to finalize the video.

Inspiration for our work

In this video, we really like, how they use the natural materials, like pineapple, to represent the characters in the water. Also the way they have used textile to make the tornado from the water. It gave us a new idea about how many possibilities of different usable materials we have and can consider using for our animation so it is more interesting.

We found this animation very interesting for the use of the whiteboard as the background. It is a nice way to animate something, especially in a stop frame animation. If our paper cut outs will not work, we will consider this as a possibility.

In this video, they used jelly beans to create a beautiful stop frame animation in the background. We consider it a possibility to create some effects on our story. Maybe a sky in the background.

This animation is a good example of how a classic stop frame animation is combined with a use of computer. It gives us a nice idea s what we can do in our own animation. There are also many nice background settings.

How are we going to do it?1. At first, we are going to make 2D coloured moving versions of our

characters 2. Secondly, we will prepare all the necessary cut outs for the animation. 3. Then we will prepare all the additional elements we will be using. For

example a textile, a snow… 4. We will also make a try out of how does everything works best together. 5. We will set the area for shooting, including the proper and correct light

setting. 6. We will make couple of trial shots to see how is everything working

together 7. We will do the animation shooting. We aim to make the whole

animation inone whole day, as we do not want the light and colour changed, unless it isnecessary of course.

8. When we finish the shooting, we will put the animation together and put it into the After Effects where will we add sounds and some text. Not all of our characters can talk, so the text can be limited.

9. Once its finish we will come up with some interesting packaging to present it

10. And we are done!

The storyPeastache checks his garden before going to sleep (there's like 4 flowers and in the shot u can see Jolie and Skitt hiding in a bush )Once he's asleep Jolie and Skitt begin to build the snow making machine (a couple of shots showing the machine getting bigger with Jolie flying parts around and Skitt securing them in place)When Peastache wakes up the whole garden is full of snow around 4 medium size hills so he is super shocked ,while Jolie and Skitt are shown playing and sliding and snowball fighting.That night while the two are asleep thinking Pea is as wellPea sneaks around and finds out the source of snow, determined to bring summer back or just to get his garden back he grabs his tool and puts it inside the pipe where the snow comes out from and goes to sleepSuddenly they all hear an explosion which was caused by the pressure built in the pipe.Startled they all go to check and find that it was the machine that explodedPeastache sees how sad the other are it wasn't his intention to make it explode so they come to an agreement that he would build it again but only if they played on only one half of the garden, the agreement is sealed with a hand shake , Peastache builds the new machine and Jolie and Skitt gift him with a new tool.

Story mood board

Thank you!