As you can see here these are photos taken during our filming process.
After finalising our characters to use by adding a few bits and bobs such as a butterfly and a watering can we then began to film our animation. We decided to use Zu3D mainly because we had already had some experience in using it previously in the year and after trying a few other programmes available on the iPad Zu3D seemed to be a lot less complex to use. Mandy provided us with a camera to use and once we set ourselves up we assumed we would be on a roll as everyone else around us seemed to be. However, this certainly was not the case. We had trouble for a while with the lighting as we had set up directly in front of a window and as the sun was shining through so brightly, along with the fact that our set generally consisted of light colours, we could not see a thing through the camera. We overcame this problem by taping a big piece of black card up to the window to block some of the light. It was by no means perfect but we made a start anyway as we felt we did not want to waste time.
We progressed through the day, taking it in turns to take photos for each frame, moulding and re-shaping the clay until we finally felt that we had enough in order to complete our two minute video. When we finally had enough frames we couldn't quite believe how much work and effort goes in to such a short 2 minute clip. Coming towards the later frames however, as our clay flowers were getting bigger and bigger they became too heavy and would not stand up.This issue was quickly addressed by us making a 'make-shift' wooden stand hidden behind the flower to prevent it from following anymore. When we played all the frames through together to create our stop motion animation we were all very pleased with the result of the video as I don't think any of us were really knowing what to expect.
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