STOP-MOTION / AFTER EFFECTS AND WORKING WITH DRAGON FRAME
My teammate chose a colour that we could use as a blackout behind our models. This was particularly challenging as when my teammate made the fisherman, he included a range of different colours and tones, along with the neon pink included in the angular fish, trying to find a colour that would successfully act as a green screen was tricky. We looked at a range of different colours but finalised on orange and began to animate our models.
We chose days we were both going to be able to spend a large portion of time in the stop-motion studio and began to animate side-by-side for us both to communicate our decisions and choices to one another. This was an extremely important part of the process, as we didn’t want to spend time on something we both weren’t happy with.
Whilst animating each model, I spent time analysing the movements of fishes and boats on YouTube so I could accurately animate each section. Moving each piece felt trivial until I began to watch the frames back and forth, acknowledging my progress with animating in stop-motion, along with how lively and natural the movements felt.
As a team, we placed each video into after effects and began to black out the background and edit the different colours. The colours were flat and plain when editing the angular fish scene and so I separated the two models and tested to see if it would make any difference. This helped massively, the colours began to be more vibrant and separating them meant that the two were distinct to one another. However, I wasn’t completely sure I was happy with the fish and so I took to procreate.
When moving software, I made three versions of the fish, editing them differently and I finalised on one, replicating this on after effects.
With the orange blackout behind the skeleton fish, I attempted the same process and took to after effects. The pieces were too delicate and once blacking the fish out, it lacked all the detail from the original models.
Going back to my previous experiment, I took the fish to the printer app and the outline was clearer, I then passed these images into aftereffects, helping them blend into whatever background we eventually decided on.
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