for my own animation i decided that i would do a model based animation because i love playing with plasticine and lego. next i decided to do an animation on a game called super smash bros brawl which is a game for the nintendo wii because it is a really great fighting game and i thought that it would be a great piece of animation to create. the models i made were of four playable characters from the game these are mario, link, pickachu and kirby. the reason i used these characters was because they were easy to make and they appear in the super smash bros brawl trailer E3 2006 at the very beginning. the scene i used for the fight scene was a desk in the mac room because i tried to use a background of the stage final destination but the stage was too small and the characters would have had to be lifted in the air and i wanted them to stand on the desk. i added the part from the game where you select the characters and the conditions for the fight scene and the part after the fight where the winner is announced, this is because i wanted it to look like i was playing the actual game. the music i picked for the animation was the music for the stage final destination because i wanted music that is playing while you are fighting just like in the game. overall i wanted wanted to make the animation just like the game by using characters from the game, music from the game and being able to select the characters and saying who the winner is at the end.

animation is the process of making things move and recording images every so often. there are many types of animation and one example is time lapse. time lapse is where you get a camera and take pictures of something at certain stages and then load them up on a computer. another way to create time lapse is to use a programme called istopmotion which is used for apple macs. to create an animation using istopmotion you have to load a blank project and take pictures every so often so that when you play it back it looks like you can see movement. george mellies was the first person to use timelapse in a movie called Carrefour De L'Opera. another example of animation is model based animation where you create a model and then take pictures of it to make it look like it is doing something. you can create models using any material but the most popular animations either use lego or plasticine/clay. one way in which you can do model based animation is to load istopmotion and create a blank project then add a mac camera to the mac and take pictures of the model at different stages to make it look like the model is moving. one famous person that makes model based animation is nick park who is famous for creating wallace and gromit and creature comforts. another example of animation is cutout animation which is where you use drawings or clippings from newspapers or magazines to create an animation. to make a cutout animation you cut images out of newspapers or magazines and then use them to create an image, next you load istopmotion and use the camera to take pictures of the animation at certain stages. one famous show that includes cutout animation is monty pythons flying circus which has many pieces of cutout animation including conrad poohs and his dancing teeth and american defence/crelm toothpaste. the other example of animation is pixilation. pixilation is animation that uses real actors to create it. to create pixilation animation you can take pictures outside and load them onto a computer. another way is to use istopmotion to take pictures with a camera while the person is moving. one famous piece of pixilation is Sledgehammer by Peter gabriel which is a music video.