Box Animation

We attempted to create an animation in the style of Jan Svankmajer, this meant using stop motion and props. In this task we worked in groups, our group was given a deck of cards and the tin they were in to create a stop motion animation.

We planned to have the cards leave the tin and turn face up as they were doing so, the cards would slide out, pile up into three piles and once the cards were out the tin would close. We then had the tin re open and have the cards slide and flip back into the tin, here is how the animation turned out.

Once we had captured each frame and put them together, we then had to record the sound to our animation as it was shot in still frames. To imitate the cards sliding out we simply flipped the cards constantly, as in the animation they were moving too quickly to match individual sounds. We imitated the tin sounds by opening and closing the tin the same times it occurred in the animation.