House Broken :(

Today when I arrived in Media and I was sure I would finish my entire project today, I opened the box with my house inside. It was broken. I think someone may of accidentally pushed it off the table or some younger girls may of taken it apart. I tried to fix it during the lesson, but I found that some of the lego pieces were missing. Instead of finishing my stop motion today, I ended up re-filming my extreme zoom out scene and trying to fix my broken house. This little problem did stunt my planning and I am running out of time. I have borrowed out a computer this weekend, so I am sure I will get my project done.

Photoshopping Flowers

I photoshopped some flowers into the colourful image to make it look prettier and brighter. Here's how I did it.

I took a photo of each flower in a different position. I selected one photo and started to build on flowers from this.
Here is the image I started with:

I then photoshopped another bunch of flowers in the left hand corner.

Then I gradually added on each flower bunch and here is the finished product:

I decided to do this as I thought it would make the world seem more colourful and prettier compared to the environment she was living in.

Scene 8 is done!

This lesson, I fixed some of my filming for scene 8. What had happened before was while my three girls were walking towards the boy, the floor moved while they were walking. This was a problem as it made that scene look unprofessional. I fixed the floor by sticking it to the ground with double sided tape. I also photoshopped the boy's mouth to make him look worried as his pig is stuck in a rope, attached to a building. I used this image to help guide me to draw the mouth.

 http://openclipart.lynms.edu.hk/index_346.html

Here's my image:

I did this by entering photoshop, opening this picture and used the clone stamp tool to 'erase' the mouth of the character. I then made a black outline of the mouth and filled it with white using the paint brush tool. I think these two mouths do resemble each other and it does look very good! 

Moving Mouths Procedure

Hello,

I thought I would let you all know the process of how I make the mouths move in my project. Firstly I take the pictures from iStopmotion and export them as images (EDIT>EXPORT AS...>AS IMAGES) Then I place these pictures into a folder on my USB. I select the image and open it in photoshop. I then use the clone stamp tool and draw out the mouth of the LEGO character. I then use the paint brush tool and draw an oval to look like an open mouth. Depending on what I want my character to say I may put different shapes like circles or fat ovals or skinny ovals. I then save the image as a .psd or .png which ever one it automatically saves as. Here's the difference between two pictures.

                                                                                                 
                                                                           Before:                                        
                                                                                                               

                                                                           After:

Hello, Friend 1

I have nearly completed the scene where she meets her first friend and her world becomes just a little more brighter. :) I didn't face any problems with this scene, I just had move more LEGO people around a bit more and re-arrange buildings too give the illusion that I had like 500 buildings. I made an idea just on the spot, I didn't have enough LEGO floor to make the pavement so I pretended that the pavement floated to connect so she would be able to walk. I decided that NY would be a magical place considering I'm using LEGO Harry Potter. :)

Welcome to New Yoke!

I finished this scene! The reason why the end isn't fully complete is because the next scene I will need to gradually zoom out and do my extreme shot. If it looks a bit weird I may have to re-film it in my own time. It took longer than usual to film, as I had to move more people and re-arrange buildings. I have a scene later on in the film I didn't know how to film. Its the scene, where I do an EXTREME zoom out and I make the girl look tiny. I asked Mr Andrews for any advice to film this he told me just to gradually zoom out and make the girl look a lot smaller than usual just by colouring some paper to make it look like the girl. I'll post some pictures later to show what I mean!

Problem - Images Stretching

I faced one big problem today. What had happened was once I photo shopped some of my images and placed them back into iStopMotion they appeared stretched. I asked assistance from Mr Andrews to try and fix it but it cannot be fixed. He suggested that at the end of the project we use an action in photoshop to make all the images stretched so it wouldn't look as weird. I hope that my project will still look good!

I've decided not to use these images as I think it will ruin my project.

Scenes 4 and 5

I missed the lesson before hand as I was sick. This hasn't affected my time management yet, but it may later on in the term. This lesson I completed scenes 4 and 5 and I will need to photoshop them so they are 100% complete. I faced one slight problem which was I couldn't make the way my main girl fall over look realistic. Mr Andrews suggested I use blu-tak and stick a bit onto the bottom of her foot and gradually push her over. This did help and made her fall look a lot more realistic. Here's how the scenes look: