Animation 5/5

So we have our idea worked out, we know how we want the animation to look, now all we have to do is put our method into practice!

This was very complex to set up but a nice challenge at the same time.

First of all we had to use an old fishing rod stand of mine as something to attach the rings to.

This then had to be clamped down by resting it on a wooden box and clamping it down with another heavy wooden block to make sure that it was secure and could not move around. 

We had to ensure that the rings were all the same distance apart to create the 'tunnel' perspective that we were looking for when we position the camera. 

To hold the rings in place we used paperclips which we threaded through the metal rod and attacted to the card, we also stuck blue tac to both the paperclips and the card to hold them firmly in place.

Finally, the combination of blue tac, 15 pieces of card and paperclips proved too much for the metal rod and it began to sag a little. To resolve this issue we tied some string to the end of the rod and fixed that to a metal beam above our heads, very technical!

  

The cutout olympic rings together with the cutout gymnast, shooting is almost ready to begin.

 So here everything is in place, it took a great deal of effort to get this far, it may be a fiddly job to animate but Hannah has drawn 12 different gymnasts all posing at different parts of the cycle, the one above is the first scene we will use. The gymnast will somersault through the rings and back again in 24 frames, therefore we will use each cutout figure twice.We may not have the gymnast somersault all the way to the end of the tunnel due to the short length of time available to us (1 sec). However the tunnel still created the effect we were looking for.

There are 15 rings in total, 3 pieces of card used for each of the colours of the olympic rings.We chose to use 3 for each colour to create more of a tunnel effect and to make sure each of the 5 colours could be clearly seen and none hidden away.