Project 2: TIME

This project had my wheels spinning the whole time, no pun intended. After viewing Kentridge and Henson's stop motion in class and on YouTube I decided to give it a try. I've always been curious about animation and recently had questions about what GIFs were. Once the decision was made the panic and stressed followed, I've never done anything like this before and I thought I bit off more than I could chew. I chose to do the Dawn of Man because time as we know it only exist because it was created by man, so take it back to the beginning. The stop motion also represented time in motion. My tools consisted of a camera (digital rental from UNCC), a tripod white cardboard backdrop, air dry clay, clamp lights, pencil and pad, and a computer. I started with flat piece of clay and took a picture, marked it in pad tthen went back and trimmed clay from sides and started building up from center. I took a picture (with clay on hands), marked in pad and repeated 40 times (4 different times due to screw ups ex: flash, forgot to mark pics, camera moved). I then tried to plug pictures in "MakeaGIF.com" program but my files were to big,and not being camera savvy, I panicked even more. I eventually set it up through Powerpoint and it turned out better than first expected. Can't wait to try again in digital media, I learned a lot. Thank You