Week 9 Outside of Class

Production time! I need to get this done by Monday, April 2nd, 2018. I have the scenes chopped up into different videos. I even created my own transitions because I thought it was required. Here are the videos, in order, that I will be putting together:

Week 9B

Today, we were supposed to have a title sequence for our stop motion. This is what I have so far when it comes to an intro:

I wanted to have a scene where it pans out and shows Athena's Temple. I will have clouds in the background slowly moving in the sky.

Then, the screen will go black. This is where the title will come in.

This is just a basic idea. After receiving feedback from Pannafino, I am going to incorporate snakes spelling out her name.

Week 9A

Today in class, we were supposed to have some production done. I was not able to get to production, but I do have my characters ready.

Athena:

Medusa:

I was also able to finish Athena's Temple, one of the scenes I will be using in my animation.

Week 8 Outside of Class

Over the weekend, I was able to start making my joint paper dolls for my animation.

Week 8B

Week 8A

Back from Spring Break

Spring Break is over and I wish it wasn't. But anyway, we had a quiz on Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 in our book Animation Unleashed. I completely forgot, so I don't think I did as well as I thought.

We now have in class work time. I began working on one of the scenes for my animation. This is the beginning of Athena's Temple:

Spring Break 3

Spring Break

Below is an image I'm going to use to build my characters. I decided I am going to create joint paper dolls. I'm going to use brads at the joints so I can easily move them for my stop motion animation.

Here are the brads I purchased. 

And I also began cutting out shapes to make my joint paper dolls.

Spring Break 2

Spring Break

During spring break, I started sketching out a storyboard for my stop motion project.

Spring Break 1

Spring Break

I purchased materials I will be using for my stop motion project. I purchased card stock and some glue.

Week 7 Outside of Class

For my stop motion animation, I am going to do an animation on The Story of Medusa and Athena. 

Medusa was a beautiful maiden who lived in Athens, Greece. She was a priestess to the goddess of wisdom and battle. In order to be a priestess to Athena, you must be a virgin and give your life to the goddess. In the 'kids' version of this legend, it was said that Medusa constantly boasted about how beautiful she was. She boasted about her beauty to anyone who would listen. She admired herself in the mirror for hours each day and when she saw her own reflection. Apparently she boasted to everyone in front of Athena that she was more beautiful than Athena, which made Athena mad. The lesson was that not everything is about looks. Athena curses Medusa by turning her into a monster - She was given chicken legs, giant metal wings, cracked skin, madness, and her signature snake hair and stone eyes. She was banished to an island where men would come to try and kill her. When she would look at them, she would watch them turn to stone. 

But apparently, in other versions, Medusa didn't boast about her looks or anything like that. She was ravishingly beautiful maiden who was admired by lots of men. But because she was a priestess to the goddess Athena, she was not allowed to marry. One day, Athena's rival and the God of the Sea, Poseidon, decided to come by and rape Medusa on the steps of Athena's temple. He did this because he wanted to humiliate Athena. 

Vulnerable and weak, Medusa prayed to Athena for guidance and forgiveness. Apparently in those days, gods claimed their mates as their partners forever. (I guess by having sex with them?) So since Medusa was raped by Poseidon, she was now his wife. (Which I really think shouldn't count due to the fact that she was raped, but whatever.) Anyway, Athena finds out Poseidon raped Medusa and gets very angry at Medusa. She claims Medusa betrayed her, which results in Athena cursing Medusa and turning her into a monster. Anyone she looks at is turned to stone, and no men want her now. She's banished to an island, where men are sent to try and kill her, but because she's angry at the gods for cursing her, she takes her revenge out on the men sent to the island to kill her. 

Years later, Perseus shows up at her island, outsmarts Medusa, and beheads her. Apparently Pegasus and Chrysaor emerge from her body. Perseus takes Medusa's head back to Athena, and Athena turns it into a shield with Medusa's face in the center, so it terrifies enemies when they look at it. 

Maybe I could change this storyline around. Maybe after Medusa gets raped and is cursed by Athena, Athena realizes that it's stupid to get angry at Medusa because Poseidon raped her. Since she can't reverse the curse, she brings Medusa back from the island, and they team up with Medusa's two immortal sisters,  Stheno and Euryale, to get revenge on Poseidon for what he did. 

I think the materials I am going to use for this project are different colors of construction paper, glitter glue, hand-lettering, and other techniques I can think of to incorporate in the project. I will post pictures later on today.

Week 7A

In Class

In class, we discussed two people's stop-motion videos that stood out to Professor Pannafino. After that, we were introduced to our second project, which is a stop-motion animation. Using stop-motion animation, we have to tell a mythical or legendary story. The rest of class was given to us to do research.

I started by doing a google search:

Then I went to Images:

These are images that have inspired me after google searching "mythical":

This one is from Game of Thrones...Ah I love the dragons.

Then I did a search on Legendary Creatures. Didn't get as much results as mythical, but here are some that stood out to me:

And gryphons... because gryphons are cool.

Also found Mythological Figures. Here are some I am familiar with and would do a story with:

Link: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mythology/characters/

Medusa - One of the three Gorgons. Medusa is a horrible woman-beast with snakes for hair. Her gaze turns men to stone. She is killed by Perseus.

Not sure who this is...but looks awesome.

Week 6 Outside of Class

This weekend, by Saturday at 12 Noon, we have to have our name reveal posted on D2L. I was able to complete and post mine on Friday night.

This is the first video I have. It is a stop-motion of me drawing my name:

This is the second video of my stop-motion. It is of me coloring in the drawing of my name.