Experi Mental

So It was apparently time for some good old "outside the box thinking", you know just like the endless stream of adverts around at the mo that use some "amazing!!!" stop frame techniques that they saw some dude in China do on you tube and have totally ripped off. The one that i can most recently remember was for Orange or some shit where loads of young hip, groovy people eventually turn from a skinny white moron into a fat black idiot.
This uses the technique of 'pixilation' which is the use of humans within a stop-motion animation, this is what my group decided to do but in the form of a video game. And yes before you mention it i do realize that our video mainly consists of young, hip, groovy idiots turning into each other.
This is the first test making sure the menu and basic movement look okay,



We decided that the people need to move slightly quicker and the menu arrow needs to move slower, from then on we would move the characters every frame but move the arrow every four frames. We thought both moving at the same time would be quite distracting but decided that it looks more natural and with the sound effects it should be fine.
This was a quick test of a rotation, an essential part of any character creation menu,



Pretty tasty huh, we now had the timing sorted for all the movements, all we had to do then was work out which order they appear in, what they are wearing and what should happen at the start and the end. This was a special kind of planning that included us all getting random clothes from home and deciding which would be the most bloody hilarious. After that we went home to shoot the rest and pretty much made it up on the spot. That's the magic of the movies kids.



Well a huge thanks to Chrissy who edited the crap outta this and put these awesome sound effects in (the game boy noise for the Xbox is inaccurate yet inspired). We all pulled together really well for this project i think, everyone was willing to put forward ideas but were also willing to let some go, everyone put the hours in, this made for a good time and what i think is a pretty great final film.