Stop Motion Practice

Stop motion stills

 This is the beginning shot of my animation. The good square is on its own

 and then begins to be chased across the page by the bad one.

This is the shot when the two black squares morph into to red 

one and this is the beginning of all of the squares becoming good.

At this point to music makes a noise that I feel represents lots of dots or 

sprinkles so I made sure that this part of the animation happened to this point in the music. 

The 2 squares morph into one at this point.

And they become one good red square.

The black square then tries to release itself from the red square.

But only good comes out of them both; lots of colourful squares.

The squares slowly come out one by one.

Until there are lots of them surrounding the 2 morphed squares.

All of the small squares return into the center of the

 2 morphed squares and they are once again just one 'good' red square.

Here is a quick practice using my cubes to make a stop motion video. This is using about 80 photographs and a frame rate of 12fps. This isn't the story from my story board as it is just a practice. By doing this practice I found that I would need a lot more photos to make the actual animation flow the way I want it to.  I like the general effect of shooting it from above so I will proceed with doing this for my final animation.