Metamorphosis Animation

In our G.T. class, we recently did a project where we created animations showing a transformation. We broke into teams of around four people and started talking about what we would like to do for our animations. My team was, Kora Quintana, Stella Hawthorne and Paige Wesoloski. Our group decided that our title would be "Jacklin changes priorities" and our animation would show that Jacklin was only doing things that made others happy but in the end she "changed priorities" and made sure that she was doing what made her happy. Our group used three different types of animation; stop-motion, claymation and stykz.

In the beginning of our animation Jacklin is a claymation. She wakes up, walks over to her closet and gets dressed in clothes that she really likes. Afterwards, she walks out to see her mom and her mom tells her there is no way she is wearing that. Jacklin goes back into her room to change clothes and the image changes to black and white to set the mood. When jacklin is heading back home, she is in a stykz animation which also has no color. She walks through her house sad and sulking but once she reaches her closet door she jumps into the air and dives under her closet doors. Jacklin comes out of the closet and a real human using stop-motion animation. Jacklin doesn't just do your casual walk though; she slithers.

Last week we did the critiques for this project by watching every animation with our class and using a document for everyone to vote for which one they thought was the best. There were two different topics that you had to grade each animation on: creativity/originality/execution  and characters/sets/props. Out of all of the groups in our class, our team got the most votes! even our teacher voted for us which I thought was really cool. Our group worked really hard on this project, we had some struggles but over all I think it worked out great.