Social Action & Community Documentary; Preparation

Today I started to draw the animation for our social action and community documentary. I first typed up all the text that is going to be in the documentary using photoshop before drawing numerous versions of the cartoon character and other things such as the balloon and the clouds and rain that appear further into the animation. I then scanned the images into photoshop. After I scanned the images I used the ruler tool to make sure each image was accurate with the placement of the cartoon figure.

Before I printed all the images I wanted to make sure that the animation flowed properly and that I hadn't missed anything out, to check this I imported the photoshopped images into IMovie where I made a rough draft of the animation. 

To get my cartoon character to walk I first ran a little test to make sure that everything flowed smoothly so that when I come to draw it up neatly everything would be fine. I first drew three templates of the character in three different positions before drawing each step the character makes on each piece of paper and repeated this technique to get the movement of the rain and balloon.

I then took photos of each drawing before importing them into IMovie where I changed the speed and arranged them in order.

Stop Motion Animation 'walking' Test;