MoMA Artwork

                                                                     Black In Place

Artist's name: Susan Rothenberg 

Date: 1976 

Medium used: Synthetic polymer paint and tempera on canvas.
Dimensions: 68 1/4" x 7' 1 1/2" (174 x 217.2 cm) 

I like her style of artwork because I find this artwork very comforting to look at. The colours work well with each other and create the feeling of safety. I think that the horse having no expression adds to the artwork and the horse. I like the sketchy rough kind of look and how the paint looks rough to create the feeling of texture. 

Black Beast II 

Date: 1957

Medium used: Painted on sheet steel 

Dimensions: 8' 9'' x 11' x 6' 5'' (266.7 x 335.3 x 195.6 cm) 

I really like this artwork because it so interesting to look at. I like how the creature is very mysterious and looks to be unpredictable. I really like the background it looks very foggy and clouded, you don't really know what out there. I like the sharp edges on the creature it create a really interesting effect of danger. I like that you can't really tell what this shape or creature really is, it creates a lot of visual interest for the viewer. 

Study of a Baboon
Artist's name: Francis Bacon
Date: 1953
Medium used: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 6' 6 1/8'' x 54 1/8'' (198.3 x 137.3 cm) This painting is really cool to look at because of how detailed the baboon really is, it looks like the artist put a lot of effort in creating this animal. The large fence creates a feeling of industrialism, it creates the feeling of human society and how human's keep animals in captivity. I love how the artist created the tall grass it looks like its swaying in the wind. I like how the baboon stands out from everything else the colurs work really well with each other. 

Carrot Trouble

                                         
This was a short stop-motion Anikka, Sabrina and myself created. We showed teamwork in our short flim using clay figures. The story starts off with are main charater the the red and yellow eared creature plants a carrot seed in his local garden. 2 days later he decides to go check to see how his carrots doing. He than try's to pull his giant prize out from the ground but finds that he is unable to do it alone, so he call's out for help. Four other clay characters help out their new friend by helping him pull out the giant carrot. When the five clay charters finally pull it out the carrot the each break off a yummy part of the giant carrot one for each clay figure. The munch the carrot as they walk together out of the garden and return each hand in hand and let out a big YAY for all their hard work!!

The Principles Of Animation

Exaggeration

Exaggeration in stop motion is when you exaggerate the actions, facial expressions, and moods of a character thing. You create dramatic expressions and scenes in your animation.

Solid Drawing

Solid drawing is creating 2-D cartoon animation into 3-D animation by adding value and shading to create a 3-D elusion.


Appeal
You animation has to look appealing and unique to attract viewers and have visual personality of its own.
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Timing

Timing is having a smooth nice action or effect, to create something great with patience and the right timing.

Rymdreglage 8-bit-trip

Food About You

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The Sandercurl Technique

This stop motion technique creates the elusion that the clay is actually moving off the ground. Although the clay actually never leaves the ground at all. I think that this stop motion tip is useful because it allows you to create the elusion of jumping. The clay never leaves the ground, the clay is moulded into a stretchy piece of clay and is brought onto the ground on the other side. This tutorial is demonstrating the squash and stretch technique.

Thaumatrope

History: 

The name means ''turning marvel'' or ''wonder wheel''. Dr. John A. Paris made the toy popular and was an animated entertainment for children.

How it works: 

The Thaumatrope is made up of a small disc and is tied together by two pieces of string. You work the toy by pulling both ends of the string and that rotates the circles which creates the feeling of movement. When the Thaumatrope is spun the movement creates an illusion that flowers appear to be actually in the vase. 

Why is this toy important:

The toy was important because it was the start to the area of animation and provided children with  animated entertainment until the final development of the modern cinema. The toy later got turned into the Phenakistoscope a much more advanced version of this simply animated toy.