I have finished my animation and to make it i got some plasticine and made my four characters mario, link, pickachu and kirby. Next I set up a camera and went into istopmotion and I filmed my animation by making the characters move very slightly and make it look like they are attacking the other characters. For the next part I recorded a fight from super smash bros brawl using a blank disc and a dvd recorder by putting the game on my wii then recording with a dvd recorder. next i took the dvd into a program called tmpeg express and edited out the fight scene so that all i had was the selection of the characters and who won the fight at the end. Finally I loaded imovie and put my animation and my recorded part into imovie and put them together so that they formed one full movie. next i loaded the video into garageband and added the music that i chose off the internet. below are a couple of screenshots of the software i used.

I have now finished my animation and loaded it into my blog. My animation is a good piece of work and I am proud of what I have done. For this assignment I used lots of different software including tmpge, imovie, and istopmotion. I have had loads of fun with this assignment as I have been able to get creative with plasticine but I had loads of problems that I managed to solve. Firstly we only had a short amount of time to finish this assignment but I managed to finish within the deadline. My second problem was trying to get the plasticine to stay together but I managed to stick wire into the model to keep it together. My third problem was that I had trouble making the characters float in mid air but I stuck some invisible nylon through each model so that it would not be visible on a camera and so the characters could float. My fourth problem was making the characters stand up but I managed to keep them up while I recorded my animation. My final problem was trying to get a file from my computer onto the apple Mac computers because it wouldn’t open and I couldn’t convert so I tried to get another copy form home but my dad couldn’t send it because it was too big so I edited it at home along with my animation and loaded it onto blogger. My animation went quite well despite the problems and I am proud of what I have done although if I was to compare to a professional piece of model based animation like Wallace and gromit then it is no where near as good as how nick park does it but I am not trying to get it to a professional standard and if it is good enough to get me a good grade then I am not bothered whether it is professional or not. i have read my comments which were made by my peers and i am pleased with the comments that i got. the comments made mainly say that it was a good piece of animation but there were a few problems with certain things such as music, the position of the camera and my hand being in the way. with regards to the comments i did not notice that my hand was in the way also with regards to the characters i couldn't get the camera any lower and with regards to the music i don't know what happened because when i loaded the video it had all the music together so i will have to look into the situation and find out what is wrong. overall good comments and i am pleased.

this is part of my animation assignment and is a timeline which shows events that are important in history pertaining to animation. it was done in photoshop and i've put on just some popular events such as the creation of the zoetrope

this is my final animation and is from the game super smash bros brawl. the animation is of a normal fight from super smash bros. the animation features clay models of mario link kirby and pickachu. i think that this animation is a brilliant piece although i had problems with the plasticine and time but i managed to finish it with titles.