APD Reflective Video Week1 By Xingfan Hu

Theme: Play and Self

Context:
When exploring this week’s theme I thought of my hobbies. I like playing games, eating and watching animations. It suddenly occurred to me that when I am playing games, there are often some special situations, such as suddenly wanting to go to the bathroom, but the game is still going on, so I am going to use this as a starting point to design the theme of this week. I can install a monitor and table in the bathroom, and the monitor is connected to my console, so that I can not lose my game in the bathroom.

Method:

This week I decided to use freeze frame animation to complete my theme. I drew cartoon characters about me on paper and drew all kinds of my expressions. Then I cut them down for shooting and made a stop motion animation.

Response:
Video Showcase: https://youtu.be/45aw3lXwPaU

Reflection:
Because of I am faced with various technical and time constraints, I don't have enough time to complete the detailed stop motion animation, and my technology for making stop motion animation is not mature, so I chose a simpler form of paper cutting to make this theme, and used repeated frames in a certain time, which achieved unexpected results. I think this is a new attempt.

URL：https://youtu.be/45aw3lXwPaU