This is the book we started with, the brief was to make an commercial trailer for world book day 2014 on the theme of giving around this book. There was no specific's that you had to stick to the story of the book so for the narrative we came up with the idea of having a girl who visits the love monster to ask for suggestions on what she should get her sister for present day. And in the end he suggests making a book rather than spending lots of money. And then we could mimic the opening and end sequence.
Basically I've the lost story board since, but there were six different scenes and a load of sets we had to make and the characters, but we had a team of us working on it. I was so impressed with how much I learnt doing this competition so much more than any other brief because it's like you had to make the deadline, you had to manage your time properly and develop it to a professional standard and work in team but it seemed to be a lot strickter because it was external. I really enjoyed it and I think we did it at the right time of year when we had the least amount of work.
Here's some photo's from making it,
plasticine model
the tree list of stuff required to make underneath
fairy lights in air dry clay
rosy and bex taking a break
masking tape and newspaper sofa, covered in air dry clay, then painted yellow, then covered in thin layer of plasticine.
painted toy boxes
finished couch and monster
boxes before painting
grass was card stuck with green tissue paper with then the grass bits from a bag stuck ontop with spray mount.
ideas for the thought bubbles for the girl on the toy boxes
monster was wire sculpture, then newspaper then masking taped on top then plasticine.
Then the next set of photo's are of production, where you can see the finished sets, (thank you to Bex and Rosy who helped with the sets and Elliot who made the house, bless he's so used to making miniature houses he didn't think a big one would take as long).
We had a few problems when filming, the plasticine melted under the lights causing the figures to disform, the camera had a weird fish eye effect which meant the set was distorted. it was quite big enough to fill all the lens so what you see in the video at the end is heavily photoshopped. The faces were all drawn in on each frame afterwards, i had so much fun making the monster blink. And Thomas Bone and Sacha Frampton helped photoshop as there were a lot of images to do. And grace kindly drew the thought bubbles. I learnt so much in photoshop through doing this, I'd never come across the clone tool before to get rid of the strings that was practically a genius invention. I think we left the sound too late, so Rosy bless had to compose her own piece in the sound booth and she learnt so much about final cut through doing this. As we were still editing images and she was rendering and so on, which was quite exciting here is a picture of Rosy exporting it from final cut approximately two hours before the midnight deadline.
However we got in on time, feel free to watch it below,
TLM FINAL ANIMATION - Broadband from fionastucla on Vimeo.
A part of me isn't very proud of it, I feel more pleased with the pictures than the final thing, however I think what we learnt is worth so much more than this output. It is an achievement especially for a first year set of students, i just I want to better than this by now, and it's so slow to get there.
We came runner's up in the competition, and received some lovely prints, here's what Rachel Said:
Rachel Bright said of your entry: ‘The stop frame animation by the students at Leeds College of Art is very well deserving of the runner up prize! I like how they have made it a story of personal gift giving and I just love the poetry of the stop frame and all the amazing details in the set building (LOVE MONSTER’S HOUSE IS JUST GORGEOUS!!)...As is the model of Love Monster...I really love it.’
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