Ella's animation writing

Today Ella is going to share her piece of writing about how we made our animations...

How to make animation

Animation is lots of individual photos joint together in chronological order to make movement. The animation I’m going to talk about is 2D, we made ours in room 8 about our school camp

Firstly you need to plan what your going to do on a A3 piece of paper then you neatly draw  your background on a A1 sized piece of paper. After that you paint your background with a fat brush first then a skinny brush to do the detail. Soon after the paint has dried put in extra details with pastel.

Next you need to make a person out of paper (that person being you). To make that paper person you need to draw all the different joints including your body and head. Before cutting the bits out you will need to draw your face and clothes. Once you’ve finished that you need to inky/sharpie your person and colour him/her in. Then cut out the pieces and use bluetac to stick him/her together. Why do you need to use bluetac? Because if you use glue or tape your person won’t able to move!

Later, if you need props draw them, inky them and then lastly colour them!

Afterwards, set up a special place for your background so you can only see the background and nothing else. Set up your people and props in the right spot ready to film. To start you need to take 10-20 pictures without moving your person because you don’t want to go straight into the action that would ruin it. Start to move your people in small movements and take a photo after every movement.

When you’ve taken about 100-200 photos, you upload your pictures onto a computer and put them together on a movie editing program. If there are any unwanted pictures that you’ve taken now’s the chance to remove them. After that you will need to add in credits and titles, and if you want any you can put in music and sound effects. Last but not least save it as a movie in a folder so it won’t get lost.

I felt good about my movie because it turned out really well. Making it gave me an opportunity to film and makes an animation which made me feel great. If I we’re you and you hadn’t done this I’d probably have a go!