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Thursday, June 17, 2010

During creating my animation based on my first idea, i realized once complete, it wouldnt turn out as i had hoped and would look alot more unprofessional than my other new idea would.
Also because of me not having much of an idea to use and base my animation on, i thought it would look quite useless and a waste of time.

I then restarted my jellybaby animation on my new idea involving the fatal crash scene in the film the titanic.
Firstly to start off my animation, i printed out an image of the titanic ship and cut it out to use, i also stuck a dark blue piece of tissue paper to a light blue piece of card to show the sea and sky.
Next i drew a couple of white clouds on card and cut them out to use at the top of the card in the sky, to show that the ship was traveling through the day before it crashed.
I then made a couple of icebergs to cause the crash from clay and stuck them to the card.

I also made 2 lifeboats from white clay and a small raft from blown clay.

Next i started making my animation by slowley moving the image of the titanic by by bit to the right so that in the end it would play through as if it was moving by itself.

Further into the animation, when the ship made it to the iceberg, i moved it in between them and then started to rip it once it was locked inside to look as though like in the film it had hit it, and caused it to break apart.
I then completely ripped the ship in half once it passed right through and then moved both half's of the ship towards the bottom of the sea very slowley as though sinking.

Now i finally used the main objects in my animation which was the jellybabies and i showed them jumping out of the ship as it was sinking by gradually moving each very slowley into the air and then into the water.

Then i moved in the two lifeboats with jellybabies on into the screen to save the remaining survivors in the water.
Near to the end i moved a little brown raft towards the top of the sea holding two jellybabies representing jack and rose, jack then floating away towards the bottom of the sea as shown in the film.

Finally i moved in one of the lifeboats used before to rescue the jellybaby and then rode off to safety!

I also added a title which was 'Titanic 2, iceberg strikes back' to the start of my animation and credits to the end of my animation, showing which jellybaby represented which character fro the film, i also included my name as producer and Sophie Mitchell's name as she helped me make my props from the clay.

To finish my animation off completely, i added a light blue background to the start and end of my animation just behind the opening title and end credits, as this helped the different coloured text stand out alot more.
To give it more effect, i also remembered to add some music to the background, being played while the animation was on and then fading away when it finished.

This is a step by step guide of how i created my jellybaby animation and finished it how i did.