Production of final animation

The first program I used was iStopmotion with a stop motion camera. I first connected the camera to the USB in the computer, and then positioned it to where I wanted it to get the angle right for the animation.

To actually create the animation, I had to click the red button on the controls on the bottom of the window to record each step (below).

Each time I moved the objects in my animation, I had to make sure to click this button and to not get my hand in the frame, which would have made the animation look less interesting and professional. If I did accidentally get my hand in the shot, which I did several times, I would delete it by hovering the cursor over the timeline, clicking it and then right clicked and delete.

After I had finished recording my animation like this, I imported it into iMovie. Here, I dragged the video into the timeline and then imported the music, when the music was added, it looked like this:

Then, to add the titles, I clicked on the T symbol, which you can see underneath the video window.

I then selected a style from the menu that came up after I clicked that. Once I had chosen, I dragged the frame into the section of video I wanted it to be.

Once I had added all the titles I wanted, I finalised the project and exported it.

Responding to criticism

I am quite pleased with my finished animation, especially after changing my idea so much. I'm glad I stuck with this idea as I think it was simple yet effective and I think it's more interesting than the others I had, and it's more fun too, I think.

When I finished my animation, I asked some people to comment on it to give me feedback. Below are the things that people said, and my reactions to them.

This first comment compliments my video and it's story, and then adds that to improve it, I could add more characters and/or make the video longer. I agree with this in that the video was under a minute long and if made longer, it could have developed a bit with other characters, perhaps more turtles.

This comment, again, compliments my animation, specifically the music over the top of the animation. The fact that the music choice was a good one in this commenter's opinion is a relief because I wasn't quite sure whether it fitted well.

This comment also compliments the choice of soundtrack for the animation, as well as the animation itself.

After looking at these comments, I think that if i were to change anything, I would try to develop the story a bit more and possibly add one or two more characters, as the first comment says. Otherwise, I am happy with my animation.

Finished animation

This is my final animation. It is a model-based animation of two origami turtles. I made it by first making the first turtle, and then I animated it using a stop motion camera, and iStopMotion. I then edited it on iMovie, and added the music there, which is Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa by Vampire Weekend, which I thought fitted the video.