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FILM MAKING WITH THE DIGITAL BLUE CAMERA 2-d animation Having successfully mounted the digiblue face down, 2-d animation has become my favourite form of animation in the ICT club. Most of the time this involves cardboard figures moving around on a background. The backgrounds are all created on A4 sheets of paper and the cardboard figures are cut from thin card. Storage is a joy; the backgrounds are stored in plastic punched sleeves along with the figures and the whole lot goes into a ring binder. Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog This paper/cardboard
shape kind of animation is generally referred to as cutout animation and
was a method used in some animations I fondly remember from my childhood,
Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog. These animations are available on
DVD, are sometimes shown on the satellite channel Noggin and can be found
on YouTube. It is well worth showing them to the children as examples
of the technique. One thing I have noticed when watching these films is
how little animation actually goes on in some of the scenes; in fact Oliver
Postgate said as much himself in his autobiography. This is worth bearing
in mind, because complicated animation can prove tedious, particularly
for young children. This youtube video is one of a series about the work of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin (Smallfilms).
Further 2-d ideas Once the camera is mounted face down, any flattish object can be animated. Drawn animation is also a possiblity. Youtube is a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for this kind of work and here are a couple of examples of other peoples work that I like:
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