Discussing my Animation Style

After gaining points of view from others about my idea and it's concept, a comment made about doing my animation on After Effects instead of stop motion animation has crossed my mind a lot. I am going to try and discuss and develop my animation style through this blog post. 

Below is a short clip of how my desired look of the scrapbook can look when done on After Effects.

The clip above is exactly the style i was wanting my stop motion animatoin to be in. The layered images, the depth the image gives, how both the scenary and the character is animated is something which I would have picked up on a lot if I was to have developed this video too. I especially noticed how the main tourist attractions are featured in this, and this idea is something which i have been wanting to include from the beginning of my idea. 

Within this link (http://www.revostock.com/After-Effects-Project/25618/Travel-Scrapbook.htm) is a video, (which i will give stills of  below) showing a template that can be used in After Effects to create the look I am going for. Although this template must be paid for, but looks very effective, I don't think I will be downloading it. However, it does give me hope that I may be able to achieve something like this myself with the software. It may be difficult to do, but the video shows that it is possible. 

 However, despite the idea of using After Effects for my animation is becoming a lot more appealing, I don't want to yet decide which path I will take and I'd rather not let myself forget my inspirations for my initial idea of stop motion animation. The first inspiration that springs to mind is again, as already mentioned in earlier posts, the Google Street View advert from Germany, showing the knitting together of their 360 degree photographs. 

The video above was from the company 'Production Sehsucht Berlin GmbH & Co KG' and the Director was 'Mate Steinforth'. I plan to research both the company and the director themselves. 

Another video that i took inspiration from which is completely stop motion animation is one called 'Pen Story' which was made by Olympus. This video also seems to be a story of someone travelling and growing older, much like the company is trying to get across that their products and themselves are like. This may be something that is worth me looking into.