Exploration 3: During

While working on my animation with clay, I was unable to get it the way I wanted to. My idea was that I was going to use clay and smear it on the paper to it looked like colors flying around. Unfortunately the clay stuck too much with the paper so every time I attempted to move the clay the paper would move and my whole scene would be ruined. I decided to discard my idea, go back to my dorm, and thing about some alternative choices. I decided to change my video to just plain waves reaching the shore and going back, I wanted to find a material that would feel like a liquid but that I'd be able to animate. Then it hit me, I could use water to animate my project along with ink. I though about how I could do it and decided that if I turned the camera into continuous mode then I'd be able to get quick pictures of the ink traveling through the water. I would then just have to pick out the pictures that I wanted then edit everything together. I went to the labs and realized that I had no clue how to switch the camera's into continuos while still making it work with Dragon Stop Motion. I also thought that the Motion Design department would appreciate me bringing ink and water to splash around.  In a moment of desperation I ended up creating my own mini stop motion studio in my room. 

It ended up working way better that expected and I was able to take the pictures with minor movement, all which I easily fixed in after effects. I had One light only and it was a bight orange light, as a result my animation eded up with a flickering orange tone to it. In my opinion the stop motion feel and the orange flicker work fairly well with the piece because it makes it look like an old stop motion short from the 50's.