Clearer ideas

I clarified with Stella that we have to make a stop motion, not a video. This means it had to be more unrealistic; something that can't happen in a straight forward video. Stop motion allows us to make inanimate objects come to life (without CG or editing).

We came up with an idea of kirby in real life, and a (fake) parfait.

Short stop motion test

We thought up a very random scenario to try a basic stop motion by taking consecutive photos. This is just for testing.

IDEAS/BRAINSTORM (before all that Stella posted)

We looked at a few youtube videos of stop motion animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rblKaYJqMXs   (behind the scenes)
It looked like a lot of work for just 1.5 minutes of film, so we decided we will probably only focus on a single stop motion project. We may do other really short (10s) films if we get ideas that are easy to do.

We decided to make a Kirby animation in real life. It would be something like moving paper against a wall, and then adding a surprise by having Kirby move into the 'z-plane', or moving out towards us, not just on the flat wall. This will be much more challenging (& lots of repetitive, annoying editing).

Homemade Kirby :PP out of foam

So I decided to try making my own Kirby. It turned out pretty funny :D

YEAH.... 

Idea for stop motion decided!! Storyboard and Characters - DRAFT

Character: Kirby, ...?

Storyboard:

    *THIS SEGMENT IN 2D* (against a wall)

1. Pokeball "thrown" 
2. Lands 
3. Kirby pops out (Sleeping?) 
4. Walks 
5. Sucks up enemies and gains powers 
6. Finishes "level" 
7. Gets into cannon. 

   *THIS SEGMENT IS IN 3D*

1. Cannon misfires Kirby towards camera
2. Kirby's face hits the camera screen 
3. Kirby slides off 

Kirby character we decided to try: 

BUT. IT WAS TOO BLURRY AND LOOKS HORRIBLE in our opinion. 

New format of blog

I think i like this new format I did :) thoughts?

Testing Testing 123 ~

This is the start of our second Genius Hour Project!! XD

Genius hour #2 HAJIME (START) !!!!

We have decided to focus on animation-- mainly STOP MOTION.