We arrived in todays lesson to a table full of toys and everyday items from colliders to welies to dolls. The aim of the lesson was to create an animation using found objects. I worked in a group of 4. We began by picking out the most random objects we could get our hands on. So we went with a doll, some mesh, flour, cupcake cases, a toy car, masking tape, a collider and some string. Non of it made sense. We hadn't thought out beforehand what objects we were going to use. Suddenly our ideas starting flowing. We were going in the direction of making something wacky as that's what we had to work with, a bunch items spontaneously picked out. We collectively came up with the idea that we were going to create an animation based on one cars journey where it encounters a range of different characters and objects coming to life. The car had to make it past a series of obstacles and strange situations. This animation was inspired by the works by PES and Jon Svankmajer who both use found objects. Their animations are both quirky and creative. I feel that our found object animation worked really well in terms of creativity. We explored using a range of everyday objects which I feel we personified and brought to life. We gave the items character. For example at the beginning of the animation there is a scene where the car encounterers the cupcake cases which try to stand in the way of the car moving about so the car cannot pass. In another scene the car encounters an head massager, scissors and masking tape. These objects come to life and chase after the car making it a very eventful and terrifying journey for the car. We tried to be quite humorous and playful with the objects.
To improve our found objects animation we could have taken more photos as some areas of the animnation looked more rushed and were a lot quicker than in other scenes. Next time we could take more photographs for each second of footage. As this would make the animation look more smooth. I also think that using a tripod would be helpful as you can see in the animation that the stop motion footage can look shaky at times because of the camera not being in the right position.
The animation makes me feel happy as it is very quirky and creative.
The animation above is a found object animation created by adam Pesapane also known as PES. He is a director and stop motion animator who uses found objects to create animations. The animation is called western spaghetti. It has been created using a range of different materials and objects. The objects replace and represent the typical ingredients that would normally be used in a spaghetti for example he has used buble wrap to represent boiling frothy water, elastic bands to represent spaghetti, foil to represent oil. He has used stop frame animation to give movement to objects which typically would not move useless being moved by something else. He has brought inanimate objects to life. I think that this idea of bringing things to life and personifying objects is very inspiring. I had looked further into animations created by PES before creating the found objects animation above. I watched other animations such as coinstar, orange telecom and baby nut where objects such as coins, socks and nuts are given personality and come alive. In the animation above you can see how the artist has used stop frame animation to make foil, paper and bubble wrap appear as if it is moving by itself. i find this idea exciting and inspiring and would like to create more animations using found objects. I like the idea of bringing things to life. PES has produced a vey creative and quirky animation. The use of different objects gives a very playful and not very serious feel to the animation. I also think that his use of bright colours adds a very happy vibe to the animation. another thing i noticed about the animation is the quality of it. PES has used very small movements to make the animation flow. The use of sound affects within the animation makes it appear more real even though he is using random objects rather than actual food. The sound affects make the animation appear more realistic.
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