2D Animation

Initially, we planned to make a 2D Flash animation, but after we produced our claymation, we decided to instead make a cut out paper animation, as it would go along with the theme of manually produced animation. I came up with the first concept of the animation, and my team all decided that we should produce that idea. The idea consisted of a ball falling through a wall, which would then travel past titles of what our team do, before exploding into our team logo, where it will be surrounded by each of our names. We created the illusion of passing the titles by printing them off in increasing size, then when we use stop motion software, we began with the smallest size, gradually going up into the largest. We used the same technique for the ball getting smaller as it travels away. We gave the illusion of the wall crumbling by cutting the print out of the wall and folding it away, this looked much better than we all anticipated. An example of where this technique is used in professional animations is in Looney Toons, where Wiley Coyote falls form a cliff and hits the floor. the same illusion that we used is used here.