Creating Sets

On Wednesday and Thursday, Kelly and I took on the big task of making the sets and objects for our animation. We spent the day together at home where we had plenty of materials which were hard to source at college. This made us able to get as many of the backgrounds and objects done as possible, although it took us a lot longer than expected.

Below are the pictures we took of each other for evidence of us making the background and images.

We made a number of different backgrounds, from plain coloured ones to more scenic ones and flags to show the countries Bill is visiting. This task took a lot longer than expected, and was extremely time consuming. With this in mind, we are going to have to spend some time before shooting our animation to make the backgrounds and objects that we didn't get round to doing. This could slow our animation filming and shooting schedule down a bit, but without the backgrounds and objects we can't shoot at all. 

The pictures below I took from Kelly's blog [klboness.blogspot.com].

These are just a few of the backgrounds we made. There's an American flag, as you can see, which Kelly painted. This was just one of the flags we painted, which gives an easy representation of the countries Bill visits. Some of the backgrounds are quite plain, such as the pink and blue and the sunset. Others, like the Tutankhamun, the stomach and the hands which I did, are ones that were necessary to be more detailed. Originally, we were going to use real human hands and stomach, but decided against the idea. 

These are some of the objects we made too. Some of them represent key times in his life, such as the birthday cake, the graduation hat and the GCSE results. Others are for showing emotion, like the tears and hearts, and others are just to set the scene and represent the country, such as the pizza and paella, the chinese lanters and the lilo.