Metamorphosis and Zoetrope

We went to the Norwich University College of Creative Arts.

We started of are animation workshop there, doing metamorphosis, the tutro who lead the workshop was Jodie Wick. We all got a word to start with and we had to draw that word. We also all had numbers. The picture we had we had to change to the person's who number was infront of us, for example say if I was 6 I had to turn my picture into the picture that number 7 had drawn.

We done this by drawing frames for various stages of what we believe would be the transformation process from the item we had to the next item. After we had drawed these pictures we took pictures of them on a rostrum.

The rostrum took two shots of each of the frames we draw. The reason two frames where shot is so in the animation it look more clear and runs more smoothly.

To the draw the pictures we used layout paper to draw on. We done it in pencil first incase we weren't happy with them and then when we are we went other them in pen so we could see them through the layout papere. Layout paper is another item of equpiment we used, it is half way between normal paper and tracing paper. Another item of equpiment we used was also the peg bar. This is so are pictures were lined up and we could make sure they were always central to the middle of the papper.

The skills we had to use were: drawing skills, and tracing skills. We also had to have patients as the process seemed to take quite a while and drag on a bit, but the end result was really good. Another skill we had to use was we had to visualise the transformation in are minds.



After we had done the Metamorphosis, we all done are own zoetrope (also know as light box)animations. This involved us drawing eighteen pictures and setting them out in a comic book lay out. The picture we had to draw had to be not to do detailed and the change had to be distinctive and simplistic, for example someone waving their hand or something distinctive like that.

We then had to put the pictures into a zoetrope.





You then sping round the zoetrope and you look through the slots in the side and it gives the pictures the illusion of movement.

To make it more effective it helps if you go over the outline in black pen and also colour in the pictures.

These are the pictures I done on the workshop. The top set were for the Metamorphosis animation and the bottom set of picturse were for my zoetrope animation.