Roto pixilation

We used a mixture of rotoscoping and pixilation to insert J3 into the archive footage.

What is Pixilation and what else have we been doing?

After Lunch six kids went down to johns room to do Pixilation. Pixilation is when you use people instead of drawings to do animation. I think it's a good way to do animation because you can add things to people that don't exist. Everone enjoyed it.- Guido

What we did in the morning. 26th January by Evan:
first Emily and Lizzy came in and we watched 'Neighbours' and then we watched a film of Daffy Duck called 'Duck Amuck'
It was really funny. My best bit was when he was hitting a metal block and a pencil rubbed it out and put a bomb there and Daffy started hitting the bomb and it exploded. After that we did we finished our storyboards. Some people put a tie on and also a shirt and were projecting germs on to the shirt and filming it. It looked actually quite COOL.

Projecting germs

This is a video of the footage that we were projecting, the children had drawn a half second animated sequence of a germ, and here they are joined up together. 

and here are some stills of our sessions in John's room:

Here is Kai imagining something dreadful.

More lovely storyboards

Here are some frame grabs from the light box animation.

18th January - getting ideas

Today we did a lot of brainstorming for ideas, followed by storyboarding and animating little loops on the light box under a rostrum camera.  The film is coming along very well and J3 have enough ideas for 10 films.  The last four images are a zoom into a pair of nostrils inspired by a screening of Charles and Ray Eames Power of Ten.  We also looked at a clip of an installation by Tony Oursler because next week we plan to try projecting our animated germs onto some mashed potato.

What we did on 13th Jan.....

Jae: On Monday we did our animation. That was the fun part because we got to move them across the sheet of paper. When we got to see the animation my germs looked like they were moving.


Guido: Lizzy and Emily came in again to do the animation project. We sat on the carpet and we saw some pictures of germs and this is a fact:
'If you get every germ in the world it would make a line from Earth to the end of the known Universe'
After that we went to the tables and drew germs and when we were finished with pencil we went over it with black pen, one was thick and one was thin.The thin one was the pen that scientists use.


Jay: We made drawings and we made a flip book and germ pictures and we watched a movie called 'Coughs and Sneezes'. We went on a camera and lizzy said she is going to make a cake with germs on it.


Tyrese: On Monday we made Flipbooks and a germ. Then we animatated it. We watched 'Coughs and Sneezes' and 'A Chairy Tale'. 


Cian: On Monday two ladies called Lizzy and Emily came in and we animated some pictures by changing it a bit each time. Then we made a Flipbook with germs in it. Emily said that mine looked good. Then we looked at some films on You Tube.

Scientific drawings

Some of J3's Beautiful Observational A3 size drawings made from photographs of germs taken with an electron microscope.

Drawn Animation

Here is some animation made in the traditional way by drawing on paper and capturing each frame under the camera.  These are germs on the move. The animation is extremely good for a first try.

Flip books, grab frames and scientific drawing

Here are some photos from our second day: